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raid recovery

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Zargon

Lifer
had a raid 5 die via 2 dead disks in a 1 hour time span

turns out some of the more important data was missed on the nightly backups 🙄

anyone have luck with places salvaging data off a raid array like this?

(thankfully it wasnt my failure)
 
It's very possible to recover data from a RAID 5 with two dead disks. Best way is to contact the RAID hardware manufacturer. Typically, they will work with work with hard drive recovery agencies to repair and recover as much data from each drive. Then they will have their RAID engineers analyze the data and extract as much as possible.

I worked on a RAID algorithm for a major supplier, and they used to do this all the time for clients. Expect to pay about $1500-$2400 for each bad disk, and another $5000-$10000 for the RAID engineer work.

It may not work, but data is definately worth it.
 
Very late one night, I had a call from a company that'd suddenly lost two disks in a three-disk Windows software RAID 5 array. They had their company's accounting database on there and their last backup was six months earlier.

A support call to Microsoft ended in the conclusion that they had two hardware failures.

The client sent the array out for recovery. They got the file back. Cost was about $25,000.
 
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they are at some place in santa monica, they gave us very good estimates on recovery thank god.

the admin in charge of that server was unfamiliar with mysql and he refuses to image OS drives(that is changing now) and mysql was of ocurse stroing the database where he installed it, in program files, whose partition on the raid wasnt backed up.
 
Zargon said:
they are at some place in santa monica, they gave us very good estimates on recovery thank god.

the admin in charge of that server was unfamiliar with mysql and he refuses to image OS drives(that is changing now) and mysql was of ocurse stroing the database where he installed it, in program files, whose partition on the raid wasnt backed up.
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4 president imo.

:thumbsup: to the estimate!
 
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