Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-02 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi John, On 2006.06.02, at 1:57 AM, John Brahy wrote: For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the drives died. Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives? How dead is the drive and how desperate are you? I have imaged a clients ide drive which was doing

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:08:21PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:57:08AM -0700, John Brahy wrote: F.r.a.c.u.l. .e.k. . .a. .u.n.n. .i.h.u. .a.k.p. .n. .n. .f.t.e.d.i.e. .i.d. .s.t.e.e.a.w.y.t. .e.o.e. .n. .f.t.e.d.t. .r.m.t.e.d.i.e.? N t l k l . o r . - Drive

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris 'Xenon' Hanson
Shane J Pearson wrote: What I did in that case, was image with Ghost and when the drive spins-down, pull the power plug on the drive alone, then plug it back in to get a few more minutes of copying. Keep doing that until the whole drive is imaged. Thankfully, this worked perfectly for me.

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-02 Thread John Brahy
It turned out that I actually configured it as a raid 1 so I have a mirrored disk. I appreciate everyone's help and now I have options if I'm ever in the situation that I thought I was in. The best advice that I got was from Samuri Chef telling me to check out this software:

one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread John Brahy
For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the drives died. Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives?

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread Jon Simola
On 6/1/06, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the drives died. Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives? The easy answer is No. If the dead drive just has some hard errors and won't fsck, you might be able to force

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread Dag Richards
John Brahy wrote: For a couple weeks I was running without backups and one of the drives died. Is there a way to recover any of the data from the drives? Raid 0 ? That is striping, so in a word no.

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:57:08AM -0700, John Brahy wrote: F.r.a.c.u.l. .e.k. . .a. .u.n.n. .i.h.u. .a.k.p. .n. .n. .f.t.e.d.i.e. .i.d. .s.t.e.e.a.w.y.t. .e.o.e. .n. .f.t.e.d.t. .r.m.t.e.d.i.e.? N t l k l . o r . - Drive 0, RAID0 o i e y S r y - Drive 1, RAID0 Nick. - Drive 0,

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread Samurai Chef
There are ways. You could drop about $80 on R-STUDIO and try to recover the data. It can regenerate raid sets. and it will read OpenBSD FFS. see http://www.data-recovery-software.net/ I've used it. It works. On 6/1/06, John Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a couple weeks I was running