There are some pretty smart computer techs on this forum so I am looking for a bit of advice on an issue that I am having. This is not EZ-Robot related, but is a location that I can go to for some advice from people who may have some experience in this, so here it goes...
I have a raid 5 that has become corrupt. All of the drives report as good (4 drives in the array). The controller isn't able to correct the array. The device is a Seagate black armor Business Storage 4 Bay NAS. The raid 5 reports as failed.
I think I am going to have to image these drives and recover each drive but have no experience in doing this. If anyone has experience doing something like this or knows of a utility that can help in this recovery, I would greatly appreciate a direction. Before you ask, the person responsible for making sure the backups took place was not doing this part of their job, so no backup is available to restore.
Thanks in advance.
David
The reason the array failed is because the drive that isn't working is being reported as good to the raid, thus it is still trying to use the drive but cant. Replacing the drive should allow the rebuild to start as the other 3 drives have been tested and are good. The raid should recover, and I can copy the data to my raid and then rebuild this array as raid 10 before returning it to them. Long week ahead I believe. There is about 6TB of data to move over a gigabit network and then back. Each move will take many hours to complete without the repair.
@d.cochran, wow, I just installed Ubuntu on a Windows 7 laptop. What a neat environment. Easy GUI install, and so many programs available. Last time I was in a similar environment was at Bell Labs in UNIX land. What a great advancement since then.
And free. Getting the school to go to it is a challenge. They fear it but they don't understand it so I understand their fear. It could save the school a lot of money and I wouldn't have to worry about them messing around on the server nearly as much.
I would love to have them go with Ubuntu on their workstations but training all of the teachers to use it would be a long process. They fear change, but the environment is so much simpler than windows 8.1. The argument I keep making is that if they are moving to windows 8 they will have to train the teachers on a new environment anyway and ubuntu is free.