NAS died. get data from RAID0?

George Hincapie · 18 Nov 2012 at 20:23

Caged said:
Obviously you back up in addition to having redundancy on your storage, the most elaborate redundancy in the world won't stop you accidentally deleting something.

Recovering deleted data is almost trivial however.

trentlad · 18 Nov 2012 at 20:34

Rroff said:
I go to the effort to setup my arrays to be realtime mirrored via software to an out of stripe disc thats using NTFS

Rroff, I'm quite intrigued. Could you please elaborate for those of us interested?

Are you using windows as the software raid or something else?
What do you mean by an 'out of stripe disc'?
Also, there have been many occasions where I've had to abandon an OS installation due to heavy virus infection (or in the case of XP just to maintain it's speed) wouldn't you loose the array if you had to reinstall Windows?

RussD · 18 Nov 2012 at 22:12

I use a NAS with two 1TB hDD in it. Both are JABOD so I save to the first one then to the other by using "Karens Replicator" FREE. Never Ever had a problem. You loose one HDD and the other can still be used. I HATE any form of RAID.

DoubleCheese · 18 Nov 2012 at 22:52

Has anyone mentioned Cloud backup's?

http://www.crashplan.com/business/

unleashed · 19 Nov 2012 at 15:19

Could look at WHS 2011.

trentlad · 20 Nov 2012 at 01:33

trentlad said:
Rroff, I'm quite intrigued. Could you please elaborate for those of us interested?

Are you using windows as the software raid or something else?
What do you mean by an 'out of stripe disc'?
Also, there have been many occasions where I've had to abandon an OS installation due to heavy virus infection (or in the case of XP just to maintain it's speed) wouldn't you loose the array if you had to reinstall Windows?

Anyone else have a clue?

ubersonic · 20 Nov 2012 at 08:59

trentlad said:
Anyone else have a clue?

Windows software RAID is partition level not drive level so you can transplant drives configured as an array into any machine running a modern version of Windows and the array should be picked up, obviously if the software array is created using hardware arrays as opposed to drives it gets more complicated.

trentlad · 22 Nov 2012 at 16:05

So if your os goes to pot, so does all your data. Seems way too risky!