Ext3 users - Jan 2004 - Filesystem returned to state of six months ago after fsck

Recently our sysadm accidentally powercycled our server (RedHat8) after 198 days
of uptime, and upon boot it insisted on checking one partition (/dev/sda7) in
our RAID. When it was done, the files were in the state of August 23 last year,
with anything newer either gone or invisible. I guess something went wrong with
journaling data. What can I do to restore the current state (except restore from
backup, which is an unfavorable option on Saturday morning) ?.

Thanks,

Boris

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On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 06:19, Boris Lenhard wrote:
> Recently our sysadm accidentally powercycled our server (RedHat8)
> after 198 days of uptime, and upon boot it insisted on checking one
> partition (/dev/sda7) in our RAID. When it was done, the files were in
> the state of August 23 last year, with anything newer either gone or
> invisible. I guess something went wrong with journaling data. What can
> I do to restore the current state (except restore from backup, which
> is an unfavorable option on Saturday morning) ?.
This really can't be an ext3 fault.

It sounds more like a disk went offline in a RAID1 pair and then the
disks swapped over on the restart (or the disk that been offline came
online and the other disk was synced to it).  If you have 2 (sets of) 
disks running in the current RAID set and they are synced I'd say you
need your backups.   Otherwise its a case of working out how to get the
right half of the RAID1 set up and then fixing from there.

        Nigel.
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