From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 12:54:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFEB616A4CE; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:54:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from scrat.cs.umu.se (scrat.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0489F43D1D; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:54:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C2E18060B; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:54:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h246n1c1o1100.bredband.skanova.com [81.225.24.246]) by scrat.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2811818053F; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 14:54:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <41668DA0.4060606@cs.umu.se> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:52:48 +0200 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey References: <41656AC8.8080008@cs.umu.se> <20041007223959.GD1350@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20041007223959.GD1350@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cs.umu.se cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VINUM: Disk crash with striped raid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:54:31 -0000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 7 October 2004 at 18:11:52 +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > > > Hi Greg and list! Thank you for your reply! > > I did have two 120 GB's disk drives in vinum as a striped raid. > > > Can you be more specific? My vinum.conf looks like this, if this is to be more specific: drive ad5 device /dev/ad5s1e drive ad6 device /dev/ad6s1e volume raid0 plex org striped 127k sd length 0 drive ad5 sd length 0 drive ad6 > > I did contact a data recovery company and they say they need both > > disks to restore the raid, because of that the raid initializing > > might be corrupted. > > > > My questions is: > > > > Do they need both disks? > > That depends on your configuration. That is as above. > > Isn't it enough if they make a disk image of the failed drive, and I > > will then be able to restore the raid data initialization in vinum > > by a vinum create, or something similar? > > The command will be 'vinum start'. Thank you! > > Will they be able to recreate the raid data without using vinum > > anyway? > > Who knows? You at least know from this mail that I don't... :-) > The real issue is the configuration of your volume (not "raid"). Sorry. > If it only has a single plex, you're in trouble. Well, then I'm in trouble. > In that case, you need your recovery company to get an image of > the failed disk. Then you should put it on a similar disk, create > a configuration entry and perform some other incantations, and you > should be up and running again. Can you please be more specific? Is the configuration entry the one above, vinum.conf? Perform other incantations? > If you have two or more plexes, you shouldn't need to do any of this. As I don't have two or more plexes it seems I have to do all of it. :-) Thank you for a reply in advance! Best regards, Paul