My developer committed a huge mistake and we cannot find our mongo database anyone in the server. Rescue please!!!
He logged into the server, and saved the following shell under ~/crontab/mongod_back.sh
:
And then he run ./mongod_back.sh
, then there were lots of permission denied
, then he did Ctrl+C
. Then the server shut down automatically.
He tried to restart the server, then he got an grub error:
He then contacted AliCloud, the engineer connected the disk to another working server, so that he could check the disk. Then, he realized that some folders have gone, including /data/
where the mongodb is!!!
1) We just don't understand how the bash could destroy the disk including /data/
;
2) And of course, is it possible to get the /data/
back?
PS: he did not take a snapshot of the disk before.
1) We just don't understand how the bash could destroy the disk including /data/;
$OUT_DIR
was unsetIn bash
and sh
comments are written as # comment
, not // comment
.
The following line will have the following effects
someVariable=someValue // not a comment
someValue
to variable someVariable
, but only for that one line. After that line the variable will go back to its old value, which is null in this case.// not a comment
, that is the program //
with the parameters not
, a
, and comment
. Since //
is just a directory (the same as /
) this will cause an error message and nothing more.Right now this behavior might seem strange, but you may have already used it in well known idioms like IFS= read -r line
or LC_ALL=C sort
.
Looking at your script the following lines probably caused the problem:
OUT_DIR=/data/backup/mongodb/tmp // ...
...
rm -rf $OUT_DIR/*
I'm sorry to bring this to you, but you basically executed rm -rf /*
since $OUT_DIR
expanded to the empty string.
Even if $OUT_DIR
wasn't empty the effect could have been the same since there is a //
"comment" after rm
. Consider the command
rm -rf some // thing
This is supposed to delete the three files/directories some
, //
, and thing
. As already pointed out //
is the same directory as /
.
However, most implementations of rm
on Linux have a guard for this case and won't delete /
so easily. On Ubuntu you will get the following warning (don't try this at home. Would suck if your rm
differs.)
$ rm -rf //
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on '//' (same as '/')
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
2) And of cause, is it possible to get the /data/ back?
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There are recovery tools you can try, but there is no guarantee that you can restore your data if you don't have a backup.