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Noob question.
Before I'm flamed for not reading the sticky on known issues. I did read it and it didn't really cover my issue.
My current setup. Firmware 1.00
I have one Raid-1 volume and 1 linear volume.
Noticed that my Raid-1 volume is not available as a share, while my linear volume is.
rebooted the DNS-323 a couple of times with the volume still not showing.
Any helpful hints would be appreaciated
Edit :Is there any other way to submit a SMB restart, without using Telnet?
More information about the current config.
Missing volume is HDD_1 Raid 1
availible volume is HDD_2 linear = (JBOD)
2 300 gig maxtor drives
Partitioned 200 gigs Raid 1 the rest is linear
Last edited by Lerxst (2008-02-04 02:53:53)
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Went ahead and picked up a 3rd party piece of software that found my data with no problem.
I didn't want to install fun plug because I was afraid it would corrupt the missing partition further.
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Good to here you got your data back - what was the software you bought, and what steps did you have to take?
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sjmac wrote:
Good to here you got your data back - what was the software you bought, and what steps did you have to take?
I used Quick Recovery Linux www.unistal.com. It's availible in two flavors. Linux (naturally) and Windows.
I plugged the drive in with my USB to SATA adaptor. Once windows recognized the drive I ran the util and the data was recovered quickly.
I'm sure there are freeware utils out there; that do the same thing, but I was in a near panic and I needed to get my data back.
I went ahead and updated the DNS-323 firmware to 1.04 and reformatted my formated my drives. Then I copied everything back into the DNS.
One thing tried before I used this software. A more advanced Linux user may have more success than I did.
Using Knoppix 5.1 reference (www.howtoforge.com/recover_data_from_ra … partitions)
entered root: sudo su
mdadm --examine --scan /dev/hda1 >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf [hda1 could be something else mine was cda2]
added devices=/dev/hda1,missing to the mdadm.conf [I used vi here I fn' hate vi]
edit the file in /etc/default/mdadm
change
autostart=false to autostart=true
Start the raid
/etc/init.d/mdadm start
/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start
ran
cat /proc/mdstat
to see if the raid was working and it was.
Here's where things went wrong and is why I went ahead and purchased software. If a more advanced Linux user could show me where I went
wrong I would be most appreciated. The 3rd party software money well spent for recovering data, but that doesn't mean everyone
else has to.
I tried to extract the volume information using the following command
dd if=/dev/md0 bs=512 count=255 skip=1 of=/tmp/md0.txt
after creating the file I opened it in vi and as expected there was a bunch of binary gibberish, but there wasn't any volume information.
After a couple days of searching and expanding the amount of information to be extracted I gave up.
I should have been able to see something like this in the md0.txt
"volGroup00 {
id = "xxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-x
seqno =2
status =["RESIZEABLE", "READ", "WRITE"
....etc.
I didn't see that and I couldn't figure out how to. If anyone one has any luck using this I'd like to see what they did.
Last edited by Lerxst (2008-02-10 19:17:35)
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