gophergutz
IS-IT--Management
Here's the problem,
We back up to an external Disk Array. The array was set up as a mirror with 2 drives in at all times. However, the drives that were in were changed daily. For example, backup job runs on Monday night, Tuesday morning I come in and remove one of the drives, put another drive (exactly like the one I took out) back in the array and it rebuilds. By Tuesday night, it was ready for the next backup job. Works fine if all I need to do is restore yesterday's data. However, if I want to put a drive in from say, a week ago, I can't do it without breaking the mirror, etc. Well CA suggested putting the disk in a PC, installing Brightstor in that PC and running a merge on that disk. Worked fine, until Windows 2000 tried to run a chkdsk on that drive. Now all the header info for the job is shot. My question is this....has anyone found a way to restore data even though the header.ctf file and possibly some header information in the session files is corrupted?
We back up to an external Disk Array. The array was set up as a mirror with 2 drives in at all times. However, the drives that were in were changed daily. For example, backup job runs on Monday night, Tuesday morning I come in and remove one of the drives, put another drive (exactly like the one I took out) back in the array and it rebuilds. By Tuesday night, it was ready for the next backup job. Works fine if all I need to do is restore yesterday's data. However, if I want to put a drive in from say, a week ago, I can't do it without breaking the mirror, etc. Well CA suggested putting the disk in a PC, installing Brightstor in that PC and running a merge on that disk. Worked fine, until Windows 2000 tried to run a chkdsk on that drive. Now all the header info for the job is shot. My question is this....has anyone found a way to restore data even though the header.ctf file and possibly some header information in the session files is corrupted?