On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Adam Barthelemy <adam at askewview.net> wrote: > From what I can tell from the few minutes of research I've done it appears > that all of the RAID options their "BeyondRAID" uses supports some sort of > redundancy (Single and dual depending on RAID type). > > If a single drive is dying and the other one is healthy he should be able > to just replace the dying drive and allow parity to rebuild or the disk to > re-mirror. > His Drobo died and he bought a replacement, but when he transferred the drives to the new Drobo it started spitting out errors and Drobo support indicated that one of the disks was giving errors. Since the new Drobo hasn't yet finished its initial setup process if he replaces the dying drive it aborts, saying initial setup hasn't been run yet. If he is concerned about data loss I'd grab an external USB drive and rsync > the data between the Drobo and the external to have a backup copy in case > things do not go well during the rebuild. > > If the array is toast then you're most likely looking at some sort of > professional recovery service unless Drobo support has suggestions on how > to get the array back online read-only to recover the data. > Drobo will do it for several hundred dollars, and he has gotten a quote from a pro recovery place. As you can imagine, the cost is quite a bit more. One thing to always keep in mind: RAID is not a backup. I've had to state > this too many times recently. While it prevents data loss from a disk > failure (or multiple failures) it is not an excuse not to have a good > backup. > Yup, and he knew it too. He had treated it as a big network disk, and has fully acknowledged that he was too lazy to get proper backups set up. Maybe I'll try imaging the bad disk to a new disk and if that doesn't work, I'll tell him cough up the money for the Drobo recovery. -- Michael Moore > --Adam > > > > On 2013-11-21 13:24, Michael Moore wrote: > >> Does anyone have experience recovering data from a Drobo storage device? >> >> A friend's Drobo device is dying, one of the drives is likely on its >> last legs and he's looking to get his data off of it. >> >> I haven't done anything with Raid, and from Drobo marketing online I >> can't tell if their "BeyondRaid" is real Raid or not. >> >> If the Drobo is real Raid, what information would I need to get to >> figure out the next steps to recovering the data off of a good drive? >> >> -- >> Michael Moore >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Support the digitization of the Iron County Miner newspaper archives Like this project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitizeicm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131121/8cbf736f/attachment.html>