hi all,
i have a raid 5 set up in a thecus n7700 nas server. I have 7 disks and one disk has failed and I have a warning on a second disk.
Ugh...
Before I rebuild the raid with a new disk I was advised to make a copy of the disk with a warning on it. Once I have an exact copy (copy it without the bad blocks), to put the copy back in the NAS along with a new disk for the failed drive and rebuild.
My question revolves around how to copy the disk for this?
I was told about acronis true image and clonezilla - but both of those seem to be pc based and I'm mac based (mac pro's, imacs, g4's probably a g5 in there too). I found carbon copy for osX but all the documentation looks like that's to copy a mac hard drive. I've posted on Carbon Copy's forum but no one has answered so i'm hoping someone has an idea here?
I'm very fearful of loosing my data as 2 disks going out on a raid 5 at the same time = data loss and to say I'm feeling sick about this is an understatement...
Any help/advice is much appreciated.
Oh and I believe the raid is formatted as ext3 in case that matters.
thanks in advance,
Mark
i have a raid 5 set up in a thecus n7700 nas server. I have 7 disks and one disk has failed and I have a warning on a second disk.
Ugh...
Before I rebuild the raid with a new disk I was advised to make a copy of the disk with a warning on it. Once I have an exact copy (copy it without the bad blocks), to put the copy back in the NAS along with a new disk for the failed drive and rebuild.
My question revolves around how to copy the disk for this?
I was told about acronis true image and clonezilla - but both of those seem to be pc based and I'm mac based (mac pro's, imacs, g4's probably a g5 in there too). I found carbon copy for osX but all the documentation looks like that's to copy a mac hard drive. I've posted on Carbon Copy's forum but no one has answered so i'm hoping someone has an idea here?
I'm very fearful of loosing my data as 2 disks going out on a raid 5 at the same time = data loss and to say I'm feeling sick about this is an understatement...
Any help/advice is much appreciated.
Oh and I believe the raid is formatted as ext3 in case that matters.
thanks in advance,
Mark