SCSI DRIVE DIED. Where to get it RECOVERED? ASAP

[SuperSix]

Tape or a RAID5 NAS box

 

[mmx]

I know tape, but which brand, model, etc...

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
Regarding places that could not recover data:
I have HD platters from SCSI drive in which you can see through them. Yes. The coating on the glass was scraped completely off. I wouldn't expect much to be recovered from those platters.

Yeah. If Ontrack couldn't recover anything, I suspect there wasn't much to be recovered. They've been doing this stuff for 20 years.

 

[mechBgon]

Bigger picture: make sure your SCSI drives are getting nice powerful forced-air cooling. Where I used to work, I arrived to find both servers locked in a metal box, with both server chassis ventliated ONLY by their PSU fans, the SCSI drives running so hot you could probably spray them with Pam and fry eggs on them... :Q Wrong, wrong, wrong. Keep the servers in a cool area, make sure they have good case ventilation that moves air right through the drive cage, and NEVER use your SCSI drive as a cooktop 😀

Also, make sure your servers are being fed a nice steady diet of electricity from an online or line-interactive UPS. As for tape drives, if your server has a spare IDE connector, you could start with one of these 20/40GB DAT drives, plus a cleaning tape, and 10 tape cartridges. Keep some backups off-site in a safe-deposit box, and practice restoring data from tapes, so you know how when the time comes.

 

[Laputa]

Yeah. If Ontrack couldn't recover anything, I suspect there wasn't much to be recovered. They've been doing this stuff for 20 years.

Not everybody at Ontrack are equally smart. They just have great tools. All the samrt guys had been moved up to handle emergencies and even the smart guys overlook things.

If budget is not an issue and your company want the speed. Should look into HP's Serial Attached SCSI solution. They come in 74gig drives and you can fit 10 of them in a 1U. Attach 2 of these to your rack and do a RAID 5 or 10, you are set.

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: wizboy11

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: SmoochyTX

Originally posted by: mmx
One of the servers backup died, however today the drive stopped being recognised, so we take it it died. Where is the best place to recover a SCSI drive?

When was your last backup?

Why would anyone backup data?

OP: Please be prepared to pay out the a$$

:thumbsup:

lol
Somehow, people just don't get the lesson to BACK UP YOUR FSCK'N DATA.
And somehow, they ALL seem to learn it the hard way.

My backup drive is dying. Should I have backed up the backup? Should I backup the backup of the backup? :roll:

😛

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
My backup drive is dying. Should I have backed up the backup? Should I backup the backup of the backup?

I'm still not understanding what this means. Your current data would be on your "Server" (or whatever you call it). Backups are redundant, separate, copies of the current data.

To me, backup for most small businesses means the following three conditions are met:

1) Live data on a Server, with the Server locked up somewhere. The Server has redundant drives, typically RAID1 or RAID5.
2) Ongoing backup onto a removable hard drive or tape drive.
3) Rotating offsite storage of some of the removable drives or tapes.

This gives you "instant" access to items that are accidentally erased, or lost because of Server RAID array failure. In the case of a major disaster, you have multiple copies of the data offsite, including older versions.

In the case of data that is no longer stored on the Server ("archived data"), keep two separate copies in different places. And I wouldn't trust both of my copies on CD or DVD media, because of my concerns about CD/DVD reliability.