Re: Recover VM Images from Dead Cluster

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> Op 24 dec. 2016 om 14:47 heeft L. Bader <ceph-users@xxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with our (dead) Ceph-Cluster: The configuration seems to be gone (deleted / overwritten) and all monitors are gone aswell. However, we do not have (up-to-date) backups for all VMs (used with Proxmox) and we would like to recover them from "raw" OSDs only (we have all OSDs mounted on one Storage Server). Restoring the cluster itself seems impossible.
> 

Work is on it's way iirc to restore MONs from OSD data.

You might want to search for that, the tracker or Github might help.

> To recover the VM images I tried to write a simple tool that:
> 1) searches all OSDs for udata files
> 2) Sorts them by Image ID
> 3) Sorts them by "position" / offset
> 4) Assembles the 4MB blocks to a single file using dd
> 
> (See: https://gitlab.lbader.de/kryptur/ceph-recovery/tree/master )
> 
> However, for many (nearly all) images there are missing blocks (empty parts I guess). So I created a 4MB block of Null-Bytes for each missing parts.
> 
> The problem is that the created Image is not usable. fdisk detects partitions correctly, but we cannot access the data in any way.
> 
> Is there another way to recover the data without having any (working) ceph tools?
> 
> Greetings and Merry Christmas :)
> 
> Lennart
> 
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