I've been thinking about R-Studio especially since it claims it can work on RAID volumes as a set without needing the controller. The disk doesn't contain a complete filesystem by itself but the RAIDset as a whole should theoretically have all the data – at least that's my going theory.

Thanks,

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Jack Kramer
Manager of Information Technology
University Relations, Michigan State University
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From: STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: STeve Andre' <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:36:03 -0400
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Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Recommendation for data recovery software

On 08/17/11 17:42, Kramer, Jack wrote:

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So for anyone who isn't aware, one of the UR webservers dropped two disks from a RAID5 last Monday. I'm looking for good tools to do a low(ish)-level volume scan looking for things like MySQL databases, etc. It doesn't look like there was any physical disk damage – the RAIDset came back online when I forced the disks back to OK – but I'm definitely missing some file indices. Does anyone have any recommendations?

If I understand you, you have a disk that is not damaged physically, but
the file system is damaged. Given that this is a raid 5 system, the disk
doesn't contain a complete filesystem, does it?

If it does, then r-studio is a great utility for digging into messes and
extracting files. But I don't think it can help out if this is part of a
raid system. I hope I'm wrong on this.

--STeve Andre'