Stuart Fox wrote:
It all depends on the array. If its a 4 disk array with 3 active members and a hot backup then they *should* just be able to recover the data, assuming the hot backup was alive long enough to sync after the active member died.
I wish! Actually, it's not my problem, and its probably in my interests to help them out, but even so I still wish people would treat their data like it matters!
If the data is valuable, ie mission or business critical, then I recommend a company called Vogon. (i think).
It'll cost enough to work around the loss of data to justify the recovery, put it that way.
Vogon, aka OnTrack. Thanks, I've spoken to them and it sounds like they'll be able to help. We'll see where it leads. (If the customer goes for it I'll report back level of success in case anyone is interested.)
They can work with most file systems and they can even write custom software to do the recovery. All that doesn’t come cheap mind you. Budget for around the £10k mark.
Just for the record, they're quoting around £8k for a standard service, up to three times that for a priority service where they work on it 24/7. Coul dbe a lot less if it turns out to be an easy recovery.
Hope this helps
Just what I was after, thanks.