All, I'm looking for a book (preferred) or other resource that discusses the ins and outs of hard disk and RAID recovery, such as:
* Tips, tricks, and best practices for how to access data from a drive that was not backed up properly and appears to have failed or is failing (especially ones with ext3 or NTFS) * Methods to avoid if the data is critical, and sending the drive to a clean room service is an option (i.e. what can I try that's safe, when should I stop, etc.) * How to recover from various hardware and software RAID failures (i.e. how to re-assemble RAID sets that were improperly serviced) * Special software that may be helpful I know everyone should backup their important stuff, but let's face it not everyone does and sometimes it's quicker to recover the whole OS with these tricks versus getting an off-site tape back, etc. I'm well schooled on proactive data protection, but I'm pretty green when it comes to heroic recovery other than the basic file system corruption issues. I've searched quite a bit for this kind of resource, but have not found anything great. I suspect there are books out there with wider scopes that have good nuggets of information on the above, but the title doesn't reveal it. Thanks for your help. Nick
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