Re: Raid help (Paypal reward)

From: Michael Gargiullo (mgargiullo_at_warpdrive.net)
Date: 12/24/03

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    Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:12:38 -0500
    
    

    On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 15:02, Chris Tunnell wrote:
    > I am desperate, and willing to pay $10+ if you can help me get a working
    > solution.
    >
    > I have a fileserver with two harddrives running in RAID 1 (Mirror).
    > They are formatted with ext2 filesystems. Each disk is 120GB and IDE.
    > There is a persistent super-block and the chunk-size is 4. There were
    > some major problems with the fileserver, so now I am moving only one of
    > the disks to another machine and need to recover data off of it. How do
    > I mount one of the disks that used to be in the array on a foriegn
    > machine so that I can retrieve the data?
    >
    > Thanks for the help. I have looked online for a while but found nothing.
    >
    > Chris

    Forget the cash...

    Have you tried taking the disk with data, and a spare drive, mount in a
    machine. use your hardware raid tools to 'rebuild' the new drive ?

    I have alot of identical machines. I've been able to use this solution
    before...

    Hope it helps

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    Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo@warpdrive.net>
    Warp Drive Networks
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