[Cialug] VDI missing files?

[Kyle H]

Could the data be cached somewhere? I like data recovery projects.What was running on the vm? Did you have any mapped drives, vb shared folders, perhaps?

On Apr 19 2018, at 2:51 pm, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> Lost a HD on a server with a VB VM (Win7) last Thursday, .. it was fairly
> simple to mount the remaining drive an copy off the VDI. Unfortunately,
> the rsync job that ran every night from the Win7 VM appears to have not
> run for the two weeks before the drive died [and crashed the machine].
>
> Unfortunately, after mounting that VDI [the 'data' partition' on a
> different VM, it looks like it is missing the last week (or more) of files
> that have been changed!
>
> Has anyone dealt with this before? Trying now to mount it directly on
> Linux to avoid any checking Win7 does on connect, but that doesn't seem
> very promsing.
>
> Thanks!
> Lee
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