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Hi all, |
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I'm trying to recover some data from and old Snap Server 4200 (c2003) |
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belonging to a local charity. It has 4 80Gb IDE drives, and runs some |
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sort of Linux kernel with their (snap's) own applications on top. |
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It won't boot to the Snap OS (Guardian OS 3.1.079 - quite an old one, |
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major version 4 and 5 have succeeded it) but it does boot to a |
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"recovery" console with a simple web page showing some details. From my |
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google searches the OS resides on the disks (perhaps just the first |
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one?) but I don't know where this recovery console is coming from. |
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I've managed to put Gentoo 2008.0_beta2 minimal (because I happened to |
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have the iso) on a USB key and made it bootable. It boots and fdisk -l |
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shows me the four drives and some partitions. (Ubuntu wouldn't even |
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boot ;) |
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I don't have the original CD's with the OS recovery on it, nor can I |
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download it (upgraded versions are $600+). I can't even find any *ahem* |
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backup versions online in the usual channels. |
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OK so the question: How can I recover the RAID data? It's RAID5 |
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(probably) with 4 disks. Can I just run some up-to-date raid tools and |
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mount the drives or do I have to get exactly the same kernal and setup? |
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I don't have much experience with RAID. (It's software raid - no card |
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just 2 IDE channels with master and slave). |
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Once I've recovered the data I don't really care what goes on it - there |
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are some great free NAS OS's, but it's mounting the RAID partition that |
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I'm not sure about. |
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Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up |
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further? |
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thanks for any suggestions, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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"Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture." |
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--Baker's Third Law of Design. |