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Post by gschamstadiena on Sept 3, 2006 23:55:17 GMT 7
Hello! What is with the Data recovery when the N2100 itself gets broken? Is it so simple how it seems - only to put the two disks in a new N2100 and all is fine?  Best regards gschamstadiena from vienna |
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Post by marty on Sept 4, 2006 11:22:59 GMT 7
Supposedly, you only need to replace the damaged disk and rebuild the RAID. Of course the new disk has to be bigger in size than the bad disk.
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Post by gschamstadiena on Sept 4, 2006 18:14:43 GMT 7
Supposedly, you only need to replace the damaged disk and rebuild the RAID. Of course the new disk has to be bigger in size than the bad disk. Hello! No, not the RAID 1 is damaged, the N2100 goes damaged. So you have to change the N2100, not the disks. :-) |
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Post by marty on Sept 5, 2006 0:01:43 GMT 7
Sorry, I meant to say Degraded.
If the RAID is Degraded, you have to replace your bad disk.
If the RAID is Damaged, then all is gone.
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Post by gschamstadiena on Sept 5, 2006 1:47:45 GMT 7
Sorry, I meant to say Degraded. If the RAID is Degraded, you have to replace your bad disk. If the RAID is Damaged, then all is gone. So this means, when the MAINBOARD of the n2100 is defect, all of the data from the RAID is gone? I will never get the data from the RAID working in a new mainboard? This seems to be a bader solution than two seperate disks with a good old copyjob. ...btw: 1. If the mainboard could be changed, what is about the availability of the N2100? If the mainboard gets defect in two or three years, would the raid work in the "new" N2100? 2. The only assurance to get the data without a n2100 is to mount one hdd of the raid1 in another operating system which can read the filesystem. Does anyone know if its possible to mount it in a linux-system? ;D |
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Post by oreos on Sept 5, 2006 11:55:27 GMT 7
Whow, I am getting a new N2100 the next days and this really shocked me. Are you 100% sure? This would be against the purpose of the box. Any machine can break but I would at least expect that buying the same would allow me to get the data out.
Can someone from Thecus verify this please? This is important for the backup strategy, because one then actually cannot depend on the system. The box can equally be damaged as the HDs.
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Post by marty on Sept 7, 2006 0:19:53 GMT 7
N2100 supports disk roaming, that means the disks can be moved to a new board.
File system is ext3. So you should be able to mount the disks in a Linux system and get your data out.
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Post by oreos on Sept 7, 2006 13:15:22 GMT 7
Thanks marty, this is really encouraging. ;D
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Post by gschamstadiena on Sept 7, 2006 13:17:53 GMT 7
Thanks, thats all I want to know!
I will test it and give a report how its working!
Best regards!
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Post by ryebank on Sept 8, 2006 22:43:37 GMT 7
There are alos a number of both free and $ utilities that claim to allow Linux ext2/3 disks to be mounted under Windows XP - what I would like to know (as a disaster recovery option) is if a single drive from the RAID 1 pair is readable under XP using one of these (one example is at www.fs-driver.org/index.html though others exist) - now if only I had thought to try this before I had loaded up my 300GB to the point I would hate it to go wrong ... So if anybody is just setting up their Thecus N2100 and wants to try this before too much data had been loaded they would be doing the Thecus world a real favour! |
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Post by gschamstadiena on Sept 9, 2006 14:33:54 GMT 7
I have tested sysinternals LinuxReader and Explore2fs from uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs-old.htmThe sysinternal tool is not working but Exporer2fs 1.07 is working fine. So dont worry about loosing data, there are possibilities to get them out! |
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Post by ryebank on Sept 11, 2006 16:26:29 GMT 7
Thanks a bundle gschamstadiena - that is just what I wanted to hear ...
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