Hi All I need advice. In a nutshell I have a customer with a 5 Disk Software RAID 5 on an old Fedora Box (The Archive Box). Recently, after a power failure, Two of the drives did not re-join the Array when the machine came back up. DMESG tells me that they are Not Fresh.
So the Drives are working as far as I can tell and I want to re-build the array. This machine was the companies Archive server and as a result has some Old Old Old Data that we need to recover. Backups were infrequent on this machine (It's the archive server right?......sigh) so I dont have a useable backup I can go from. The Painful irony is that I was about to Move all this old data onto a VMWare machine in the next month.....sigh again. Assuming the disks are there and OK, How do i "Freshen" them up and re-build the software RAID array?. I need to be careful as I dont want to do more damage while trying to re-build. And if I cant get any answers can anyone recommend a great Data Recovery mob in Sydney? Kev -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
