Recover data over the network

[Arshpreet Singh]

On Saturday, 10 October 2015 04:40:27 UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano  wrote:
 
> What do you mean, "recover data from a server"? What has happened to the
> server? Can it boot or is it in an unbootable state? Are the hard drives
> physically damaged? What sort of hard drives? (Solid state, or magnetic
> media?)

Server is booting up. We are using SSD. Disk is not physically Damaged. I can't reach to server Physically. 
 
 
> What makes you think this will be a "small" Python application? Do you have
> limits on the maximum size? (Does the application have to fit on a floppy
> disk?) Are you expecting a GUI? What OS do you want the application to run
> on? (Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android, embedded systems, something else?)

>From the small I was meaning a simple Python command Line application. That I will be able to execute from shell. Server is on Ubuntu Linux.

> > For the 2nd part I can use scp(secure copy), Please let me know if any
> > data-recovery library is available in Python to do 1st task.
> 
> Depends on what you mean by data recovery.

My main aim is to recover user accounts mostly data present in /home partition of the disk.