On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Gary Sanderson <[email protected]> wrote: > The next bump on this road is the most recent known good backup is about 2 > months old ...
First step: Back a full backup of the current state, to *new media*. (Keep that old backup around untouched.) If the regular backup solution won't work, use a plain file copy of everything you can, to an external medium (external USB-attach hard drive, for example). It may have some bad data, but if the RAID array acts up again, something may be better than nothing. If there are data export options in the software, use those as well (in addition to, not instead of). This may be helpful if you have to restore an old backup and then try and feed the more recent changes back in to it. I suspect you're going to have to restore the system from the backup. It sounds like the system's fairly well hosed. Putting a system back together at that point is often like putting Humpty Dumpty back together. Call experts. Call Dell for help with the RAID controller. You should have done that when things first went nuts; there may have been a better way to revive the RAID array. There may also be firmware updates you need to install on the controller or drives. Call your application software vendors for assistance analyzing the state of their software, and figuring out where to go from here. They may have ways to test the integrity of their database, or to export data in a way Call Microsoft on Exchange and Windows issues. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
