Recover a software raid

[cyoung]

My Samba server decided to die last night with a SCSI drive failure.

The system had a SCSI drive (non-raid) for the OS, and then 2 IDE drives as a raid1 for the shares.

The SCSI drive failed, so I cannot boot the system.

Will any of the live distro's let me mount the raid array so that I can recover the data that is on them?

Thanks

 

[thedaver]

If you truly had a RAID1 implementation under software RAID, my understanding (of both RAID and SW RAID) is that you need only mount one of the drives and you'd use it like a stand-alone drive. That could easily be mounted from a live distro.

Whether your crash incurred any data corruption problems will be evidenced through your data copy.

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[cyoung]

It was truly a software based raid 1.

Since the data to recover was on the raid, I ended up installing an old SCSI drive to replace the bad drive and did a reinstall of Fedora and copied the info from the raid to an externam HDD.

I will get a new SCSI drive and do a complete reinstall of the system.

I can't complain. The system had been up for over 3 years without a single reboot, and the SCSI drive was not exactly new when I installed it.