/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object files: No such file or directory

/sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object files: No such file or directory

Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-573.26.1.el6x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81538b77>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f

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I have a backup appliance that wrote it's recovery files to the wrong the directory - it's own root.

Now the machine won't turn on and I cannot access the backups.

This is the error I get when starting it. Can it be saved? Where do I start?

I can boot to live cd and see the file system but not sure how to try and repair it.