Recovery (was Re: serious WANT! Samsung SSD 64g drive ..)

[Tony Scharf]

Ok, my main music PC has been around for at least 4 years.  Its an
athlon 64 3200+ with 1gb of ram.   I had the data drives setup in a
raid configuration (SATA, on the mother board).   I used to run Sonar,
but switched to Cubase but recently have been using live more and
more.   Ive also got a lot of other software on there.

The files system was NTFS on the music system. my backup drive is EXT3
because I used knoppix to make disk images to it.  When I went to
format a new backup disk, I screwed up and accidentally formated the
data drive.  To make matters worse, linux did NOT see the raid
controller, so I ended up formatting just one of the stripped hard
drives.  When I went to do the recovery, It was only able to recover
every other stripe.

After my move, I am planning to implement a smarter backup system that
goes to a completely different system through the network and doesnt
involve me booting into a separate OS to do this.  It was a bad setup,
really.

with everything in storage, I am using my alienware laptop (a client
perk from a few years ago)  that I intend to use for my DJ rig and for
playing with reason for the next couple weeks.  The move is a week
from tomorrow, but I probably wont get the studio reconfigured for a
few weeks after that (we are painting, carpeting and doing some
acoustic treatments first). So for now, its just me and minimal
software..

Tony

On Nov 11, 2007 7:53 PM, Michael Zacherl <mubar-03 at blauwurf.at> wrote:
> On 11.11.2007 17:05 Uhr, Tony Scharf wrote:
> > The data is gone, and I figured out why.   the drive that was killed
> > was actually a raid container, but linux didnt see the raid controller
> > when I formatted it ext3.   it only formated one out of the 3 drives
> > (or something like that) and corrupted the whole container.   all the
> > files that were restored have every other stripe of data missing.  I
> > cant even imagine how to piece this puzzle back together...
>
> I'm not sure, if I missed that, anyway - could you PLS (re)elaborate
> your computer setup? You're using Live, and utilise ext3?
> I'm sure I missed something ... so it's a Windows laptop, right?
>
>     g'd'n8, Michael.
>
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