On 10/10/07, Marvin Pascual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello P.V.Anthony,
>
> On 10/10/07, P.V.Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Need to recover data from a failed software raid 5 array.
> >
> > Is there some application that can recover this data?
> >
> > Is this a lost cause?
>
> What exactly happened?  How many hard disk drives do you have?  If you
> only have three (3) hard disk drives on your software RAID 5 setup and
> one (1) of those crashed then I don't think you can recover the data.


If you had a RAID5 array with 3 drives, and one of them crashed, you should
be able to continue using the array in a degraded mode with just 2 drives.
Once you have a replacement drive, you should be able to rebuild the array
by using your usual software raid management tools (eg. mdadm).
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