Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:28:50 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: ryan.coleman@cwis.biz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Fixing" a RAID Message-ID: <4859C462.6030000@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <2812.71.63.150.244.1213842028.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net> References: <2812.71.63.150.244.1213842028.squirrel@www.pictureprints.net>
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Ryan Coleman wrote: >> Ryan Coleman wrote: > and my tech said "that's a bad sign, you're toast" > and left me hanging. Knowing you spanned the drives without parity or backup, there is no need for me to review the errors. I agree with your tech. Unless there is a miracle (or you outsource the entire array to a recovery location), good luck. Sorry I couldn't be more help. FYI...when you span drives, your single point of failure is an exponential factor of how many drives you are spanning. I have done low level disk data recovery before, but describing it is beyond what I can do via email. Even still, said disk recovery still relied on the ability for the heads to read off the platter. If I were you, I'd consider your backup strategy now for that 7TB array you are building. Thats a lot of data. You need to be able to go back more than one day. If nobody else has a suggestion to retrieve the info, you will send it away. Steve
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