I can't even
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I'm trying to raise her on Facebook to help out. But she's not online right now.
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Oh man, three dead drives on a RAID 5.
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She loses
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Lots of randomly mixed up drives there, too.
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Ouch, it burns!
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How do you even lose three drives in a RAID 5? Did they drop the servers? Has it been offline for years?
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Hopefully she has good backups
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@reid-cooper said in I can't even:
How do you even lose three drives in a RAID 5? Did they drop the servers? Has it been offline for years?
Hasn't been rebooted in forever would be my bet.
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@wrx7m said in I can't even:
Hopefully she has good backups
With a mixed bag of drives like that in a RAID5, it's unlikely backups exist... if any, I doubt it's a working backup.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
@wrx7m said in I can't even:
Hopefully she has good backups
With a mixed bag of drives like that in a RAID5, it's unlikely backups exist... if any, I doubt it's a working backup.
Mixed drives, ancient RAID 5, multiple arrays of matching drives (no OBR), Windows physical server no virtualization - I'd put the chances of backups around 10%.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
@tim_g said in I can't even:
@wrx7m said in I can't even:
Hopefully she has good backups
With a mixed bag of drives like that in a RAID5, it's unlikely backups exist... if any, I doubt it's a working backup.
Mixed drives, ancient RAID 5, multiple arrays of matching drives (no OBR), Windows physical server no virtualization - I'd put the chances of backups around 10%.
I'd say a 30% chance of your 10% that the backups are too old to use.
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@tim_g said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
@tim_g said in I can't even:
@wrx7m said in I can't even:
Hopefully she has good backups
With a mixed bag of drives like that in a RAID5, it's unlikely backups exist... if any, I doubt it's a working backup.
Mixed drives, ancient RAID 5, multiple arrays of matching drives (no OBR), Windows physical server no virtualization - I'd put the chances of backups around 10%.
I'd say a 30% chance of your 10% that the backups are too old to use.
Right, I'm only wagering 10% that there is an attempted backup. We'd have to take a completely different guess as to if it is tested (.1%), complete (40%), or working at all (15%.)
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External lights match the screen... five green, three orange. That array is toast.
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Nine years on old SAS drives. Not amazing, but not bad. More than half of them are still spinning.
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Hopefully they learn from this. That's their only server?
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Yes, only server that they have (had).
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Just confirmed that she has backups. Sadly, they are Backup Exec.
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@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Just confirmed that she has backups. Sadly, they are Backup Exec.
Great at taking backups.... restoring... well, it's not in the name.
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@travisdh1 said in I can't even:
@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
Just confirmed that she has backups. Sadly, they are Backup Exec.
Great at taking backups.... restoring... well, it's not in the name.
She needs a whole new server before even thinking about that.
