- Apr 5, 2001
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I'm having a little crisis with a Marvell RAID 1 setup.
I accessed my home server running Windows Server 2008 R2 just fine all day as I do every day. Then tonight I access it, and WTH, a lot of important files are gone! Just gone! Practically gave me a heart-attack. So I calm myself down, look at Event Manager, and it looks like the computer rebooted itself somehow and thinks it hasn't been run in 2-months. I checked the Marvell utility, and it shows both mirrored drives are Degraded with blinking exclamation marks on them. It looks like the computer has completely reverted back to 2-months ago. I theorize that the only way this is possible is one of the drives has been degraded for 2-months (email notification apparently not functioning), and then somehow a spontaneous reboot caused by who-knows-what has decided the degraded drive with 2-months old data is the valid one.
In the hopes of recovering the last 2-months of data, I've unplugged both drives from the server and plugged them into another machine. Both show up with no partitions and inaccessible. Running EaseUs on one, and it's picking up files that are less than 2-months old so I'm cautiously optimistic, though a full scan will take 5 more hours.
Is there any easy way to access/recover the data on these drives, or is EaseUs the only way? Is there any possible way to restore the machine the way it was?
I'm really not liking that Marvell RAID setup uses a proprietary format on the mirrored drives.
I accessed my home server running Windows Server 2008 R2 just fine all day as I do every day. Then tonight I access it, and WTH, a lot of important files are gone! Just gone! Practically gave me a heart-attack. So I calm myself down, look at Event Manager, and it looks like the computer rebooted itself somehow and thinks it hasn't been run in 2-months. I checked the Marvell utility, and it shows both mirrored drives are Degraded with blinking exclamation marks on them. It looks like the computer has completely reverted back to 2-months ago. I theorize that the only way this is possible is one of the drives has been degraded for 2-months (email notification apparently not functioning), and then somehow a spontaneous reboot caused by who-knows-what has decided the degraded drive with 2-months old data is the valid one.
In the hopes of recovering the last 2-months of data, I've unplugged both drives from the server and plugged them into another machine. Both show up with no partitions and inaccessible. Running EaseUs on one, and it's picking up files that are less than 2-months old so I'm cautiously optimistic, though a full scan will take 5 more hours.
Is there any easy way to access/recover the data on these drives, or is EaseUs the only way? Is there any possible way to restore the machine the way it was?
I'm really not liking that Marvell RAID setup uses a proprietary format on the mirrored drives.