Raid 5 disks

[bobsa30]

We have had an issue with our data disks, a techy shut down the server, unpluged the PCI RAID card and plugged the Drives str8 onto the m/board SCSI connector (its a G3 ML350). he tried to dstart the server and the raid 5 array wasn't there, he then plugged the drives back into the RAID card and rebooteds the server, the drives are showing as a new raid set in the server but no data showing on them. we have backups of essential stuff but this is a 900 GB Array so we would like to get it all back.

Any ideas?

 

[wahnula]

Have you been running SBS Backup regularly? It can and will recover the array. If not, I would contact the manufacturer of the RAID card and mention the scenario, see if there's a solution. Who is the manufacturer of the RAID card?

Oh and never let that person near your server again.

Tony

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[LWComputingMVP]

Another option for data recovery - I've used RAID Reconstructor with great success (I PAID for it before proceeding with the recovery and it was well worth the $100). Using RAID Reconstructor, you can connect the drives to a NON-RAID controller and get yourself a large (1TB) standard drive, then recover the data directly to that non-RAID 1 TB drive. Recreate the RAID and then put that data back.