<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/71c44b9f-1149-45ec-bad6-118cd69f432c/602BE03A-0035-4BA6-8CAD-3373C942506B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm" href="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dataclinic.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dataclinic.co.uk/img/9F0F6F6F-F79C-4277-B3D1-0C294408CBB0" alt="recover raid data" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" size="+1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Raid and server faults: Avoiding data loss</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">How the data is stored:</STRONG> Typically the data you wish to recover will be written across all the disks that make up the RAID array. From a data recovery angle, this typically means that complete individual files <STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">will not</STRONG> exist on any one disk, but rather segments of each file will be distributed across the whole RAID array. It's therefore pointless (unless you are trying to recover data from a mirrored raid [RAID 1]) to attempt to isolate a single drive from the array and recover that.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" />Golden rules of RAID data recovery:</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000>DO NOT change the disk order of the arra</FONT><FONT color=#ff0000></FONT>y:</FONT></STRONG></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT size=2 face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000>DO NOT run disk checking software on the arra</FONT><FONT color=#ff0000></FONT>y:</FONT></STRONG></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>DO NOT continue to run the system if one or more of the hard disks appear faulty:</STRONG></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT color=#ff0000><STRONG>DO NOT re- configure the RAID:</STRONG></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" size="3"><BR aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" />The most important Golden Rule: </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" align="left"><STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" color="#ff0000">DO NOT rebuild the RAID:</FONT></STRONG> If any of the points above apply or you are uncertain about the viability of your data, <STRONG aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">DO NOT REBUILD THE RAID</STRONG>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/raid-server-faults.htm"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" color="#ff0000" size="5"><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" color="#ff0000" size="5">0870 140 25</FONT><FONT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0" color="#ff0000" size="5"></FONT>25</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/602BE03A-0035-4BA6-8CAD-3373C942506B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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