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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