[H-GEN] recovering data from raid array

[Stephen Thorne]

On 2/12/07, mick <mickhowe at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > I had the misfortune to have my netfinity 5500 server fail last weekend and
> > the only backup of my data was to a 2 x 18GB RAID0 array.
> >
> > Does anyone have the ability to mount that array and copy the contents to
> > dvds so I can transfer the data to my replacement server (a compaq proliat
> > ML530).
> >
> Should have mentioned that the array was created with IBM ServeRAID 2
> controller. I think it should be readable with either netfinity or xseries

It shouldn't matter what the array was created with.

See here for some details on how the pyflag project reads data from a
RAID array, when you don't have access to the correct controller:
http://pyflag.sourceforge.net/Documentation/articles/raid/reconstruction.html

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Stephen Thorne

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