Can't mount corrupted archive
The short story:
I had a 3-disk RAID5 array. I decided it wasn't really helping performance and I wanted my 1TB of space back. I did a full system image to an external 3TB drive and broke the array.
I booted the Acronis recovery cd and went to restore and it said that drive c was corrupt in the backup but the rest of the data was there.
Despite my efforts to get a bootable system out of the restore I was unable to do so. So I booted up my Ubuntu LiveCD to see if there was a problem I could fix.
I ended up booting into the livecd so many times I decided to just install it on one of my drives to save me the time. That was my first mistake. When I told it to install it selected my backup drive and wiped it putting down a main partition and swap.
I removed the linux partitions so the drive just showed as "unallocated"
I made an image of the drive using dd.
Now the question is, is there any way to access the data in the image? Acronis just tells me it is corrupt and to try mounting it. Trying to mount it tells me to try mounting it also.
Is there *any* way to recover this? Some tool or utility to rebuild a backup image? I don't need the whole thing restored, just some files.
Thanks!
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Right now the disk image I made with dd is about 900GB and resides on a 1TB drive. The original image was about 850GB in total.
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Could you move the old image (the one that seems to be corrupted) to a 1TB disk, then validate it?
I don't think you can restore a DD image with Acronis
http://kb.acronis.com/content/3838
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the old image.tib file was erased so there isn't anything to move. Could I hex edit the dd image to extract the acronis data? What is the structure of a .tib file so I could know where to perform surgery?
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I don't know.
Is it too late to do a valuable backup with ATI from the recovery disk?
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