Bryan - Yes, I guess that would be the safe bet - backup the data on a set of 2 TB drives and then go about fixing the server. Not sure if I can get the wife to approve the cost of doing both.
Part of the issue is that I am at my current storage limit and wad planning on building a new system. Just not now. ----------- Brian Sent from my iPhone On 2011-03-08, at 4:16 PM, Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > With two 3TB HDs or 3 2TB hds :) > > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:05:27PM -0500, Brian Weeden wrote: >> Duncan - >> >> The problem is how does one backup 6 TB of data? >> >> ----------- >> Brian >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 2011-03-08, at 3:48 PM, DSinc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Brian, >>> I'm no raid expert. Do I understand that: >>> channel 3 HD reported failed? >>> And, after checking the channel 3 hd offline, >>> now channel 4 hd reports failed? >>> >>> I would tell the raid controller to again format the >>> channel 3 hd and see if you can re-integrate it to >>> the array. >>> >>> Even if in a degraded mode, backup your data ASAP. >>> HTH, >>> Duncan >>> >>> >>> On 03/08/2011 13:53, Brian Weeden wrote: >>>> I am having problems with the RAID array that holds all my media. It is a >>>> RAID 5 array with 8 1 TB drives, hosted on an Areca 1220 controller. I >>>> have >>>> about 6.2 TB of music, movies, TV shows, and photos on there. >>>> >>>> On Friday I got a message that the drive on channel 3 had failed and the >>>> array was degraded. I got a replacement drive today, powered off the >>>> machine, inserted the replacement drive, and powered up. I went into the >>>> RAID management software, set the new drive as a hot spare, and it started >>>> rebuilding. I watched it get to about 9% done and then went away and did >>>> something else. >>>> >>>> Coming back, I saw that the RAID management software now listed channel 3 >>>> as >>>> failed again (the new drive). Puzzled, I popped the old "failed" drive >>>> into >>>> my other machine and it spun right up. I was able to format it and see it >>>> in windows no problem. >>>> >>>> I powered off the machine, re-attached the old drive, and powered it back >>>> on. During boot, the RAID card BIOS says that no RAID array is detected. >>>> Now is where I start to get scared. I power off, put the old drive back >>>> in, and power on. Now it detects the array, still in degraded state, but >>>> says that Channel 4 is the bad drive. I did not change any cables around. >>>> >>>> Advice on what to do? I really, REALLY do not want to lose this array and >>>> all my data. It would take me a long time to recover it all. At this >>>> point >>>> I am concerned that maybe the RAID card itself is bad, or maybe some bad >>>> cables, or a bad power supply who knows. But with a RAID 5 array that >>>> already has a bad drive, I am hesitant to start troubleshooting that might >>>> cause another drive to fail and I lose everything. >>>> >>>> I guess an option would be to build a completely new system using another >>>> storage architecture, like unRAID, which is what I was planning to do in >>>> another year. That's really the only way I can think to get my data to >>>> safety. But I don't want to spend that money/time now if I can at all help >>>> it. >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Brian >>>> > > -- > > Bryan G. Seitz
