Resolving Data Loss issues from Sun Solaris on Intel platform
Andrew Watson
May 26, 2009
Sun Solaris is a UNIX based operating system that incorporates innovative features like DTrace (for comprehensive dynamic tracing framework). The ZFS (Zettabyte File System) file system takes care of high storage requirements by providing large storage capacities. The operating system primarily supports x86 (Intel) and SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) based workstations and servers. Solaris operating system, if installed on Intel platform provides various advantages such as improved security, speed and reliability. However, Solaris corruption might result as complete or partial data loss. In such situations, you need to restore your data from an up-to-date backup. But, if you have not created any backup or backup fails to restore the required data, then you should go for advanced Sun Solaris Data Recoverysoftware to recover the lost data.
The data loss in Solaris on Intel platform primarily occurs due to these reasons:
Damage to the Inode table
Primary and secondary super block corruption
Virus infection
VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) damage
Operating system malfunction
Metadata structure corruption
File system damage
Few error messages that you might receive when you encounter any of the above situations are:
"A Lack of Root Filesystem Space When Installing Solaris 10 Kernel Patch 137137-09/137138-09 May Render Systems Unbootable"
"With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg (1M) may remove External Dependencies and leave the system Unbootable"
Out of memory
In most of the above error messages, the system becomes unmountable and the data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible. To overcome all these losses, the best possible solution is to reinstall Solaris operating system. A clean reinstall of Solaris operating system erases all data from the selected partition. In such data loss scenarios, you will need to use advanced Sun Solaris Data Recovery software. Such Sun Solaris Data Recovery utilities incorporate advanced scanning methods to recover your lost data. These utilities are designed with power packed scanning capabilities and largely graphical user interface, which makes them self-explanatory without the need of prior technical skills. Such recovery tools recover lost data after fsck is unable to repair the system data structures. These applications can also recover lost data post serious corruption scenarios like superblock or inode structure damage.
Stellar Phoenix (Solaris - Intel) Data Recovery is a powerful Sun Solaris Data Recovery utility. The read-only utility is compatible with UFS file systems. It gets installed on Windows (XP, 2003, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95) and the affected Sun Solaris hard drive should be connected as slave.
The data loss in Solaris on Intel platform primarily occurs due to these reasons:
Damage to the Inode table
Primary and secondary super block corruption
Virus infection
VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) damage
Operating system malfunction
Metadata structure corruption
File system damage
Few error messages that you might receive when you encounter any of the above situations are:
"A Lack of Root Filesystem Space When Installing Solaris 10 Kernel Patch 137137-09/137138-09 May Render Systems Unbootable"
"With Certain Solaris 10 patches installed, svccfg (1M) may remove External Dependencies and leave the system Unbootable"
Out of memory
In most of the above error messages, the system becomes unmountable and the data saved in the hard drive becomes inaccessible. To overcome all these losses, the best possible solution is to reinstall Solaris operating system. A clean reinstall of Solaris operating system erases all data from the selected partition. In such data loss scenarios, you will need to use advanced Sun Solaris Data Recovery software. Such Sun Solaris Data Recovery utilities incorporate advanced scanning methods to recover your lost data. These utilities are designed with power packed scanning capabilities and largely graphical user interface, which makes them self-explanatory without the need of prior technical skills. Such recovery tools recover lost data after fsck is unable to repair the system data structures. These applications can also recover lost data post serious corruption scenarios like superblock or inode structure damage.
Stellar Phoenix (Solaris - Intel) Data Recovery is a powerful Sun Solaris Data Recovery utility. The read-only utility is compatible with UFS file systems. It gets installed on Windows (XP, 2003, 2000, NT, ME, 98 and 95) and the affected Sun Solaris hard drive should be connected as slave.
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