The server has been down for over a year now. What happened was that on May 25, 2021, the Orange Pi’s power-connector had a cold-joint, so the power was flaky and kept causing it to power off and back on. This caused Armbian to reboot several times in a row. This wasn’t new and it always came back up before, but this time, it wouldn’t boot anymore. This time, it said it couldn’t find a valid filesystem. After a lot of consternation and testing, I determined that the ext4 partition had become corrupted. I don’t know wth happened to the journaling function of ext4 that’s supposed to prevent this. \ud83e\udd28<\/p>\n
Anyway, after making a backup and wasting a lot of time trying to analyze and trying to do data-recovery, I fixed the partition table and superblock, and can see some of the items in the root, but there’s a lot of broken directories. Apparently a lot of inodes are somehow broken.<\/p>\n
Doing raw searches seems to find most of the directories and of course, most of the files are there, I just need a way to rebuild the directory structure and\/or inodes. That is, I need either a way to fix the corruption, or a data-recovery program that can search for directories and rebuild the tree (with user-input if needed).<\/p>\n
I’m currently using a backup that was made two years before the crash, so it’s pretty devastating that two years of work (the most productive two years \ud83e\udd26) are lost. \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n
Any ideas? Can anybody help? Is anybody out there?<\/em> (Comments can be posted without an account.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The server has been down for over a year now. What happened was that on May 25, 2021, the Orange Pi’s power-connector had a cold-joint, so the power was flaky and kept causing it to power off and back on. This caused Armbian to reboot several times in a row. This wasn’t new and it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}