Red Squirrel
[H]F Junkie
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We had a long power outage, the UPS shut down everything and all properly, but the outage was just so long that the drives all had a chance to completely cool down before they were powered up again. Upon powering up everything looked ok, and while the VMs were loading 2 of the 5 drives dropped out of my main mdadm array. So everything started going insane like spamming dmesg errors and stuff but I could still access some of the data on the array, but it was hit and miss. Maybe it was cached, I don't know. So I rebooted and hopped for the best. All the drives are up but the raid does not start. It starts with two drives missing. I can add them, and it actually says it's clean but not started. Ironicly, there is no start command. Normally an array just starts automaticly.
Is there any way to actually recover this or am I screwed? I do have backups but it will be such a royal pain having to sift through all that and do a restore, reset all the permissions so stuff works etc... just the thought of it is brutal.
Before I give up, just wondering if there's anything I can maybe try. Though even if I get it going I don't know how long it's really going to last.
Never buy Hitachi drives. They are the biggest pieces of crap ever. I ironicly have 5 incoming in the mail that I RMAed not too long ago. Now 2 more dropped at once. Pure crap.
Guess it's time to go shopping and order 5 new drives. Maybe WD blacks.
Is there any way to actually recover this or am I screwed? I do have backups but it will be such a royal pain having to sift through all that and do a restore, reset all the permissions so stuff works etc... just the thought of it is brutal.
Before I give up, just wondering if there's anything I can maybe try. Though even if I get it going I don't know how long it's really going to last.
Never buy Hitachi drives. They are the biggest pieces of crap ever. I ironicly have 5 incoming in the mail that I RMAed not too long ago. Now 2 more dropped at once. Pure crap.
Guess it's time to go shopping and order 5 new drives. Maybe WD blacks.