Need help restoring Areca Raidset and Volume

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I have a 1210 controller. 4 drives in raid 5. I do not know the original order. I do have a screenshot of the original settings. Windows 7 lives on a different drive.

One of my drives had failed so I decided to replace all of the drives and have been hot swapping them one at a time over the last 3 days (waiting until each one is complete).

Once all of the drives were swapped I selected "Check Volume Set" but after realizing that it was going to talk a long time I selected "Stop Volume Check", rebooted, and started booting into Windows 7.

Upon booting into Windows 7, "windows deleting orphan file record segment" started and deleted a whole bunch of records. To the point where files are for sure missing.

I then switched back to the original 4 drives. Raid was not automatically detected so I did "RESCUE" to no luck and then "LeVeL2ReScUe" with some luck: it shows "3/4 Disks: Incomplete" (does this simply mean the one drive is failed or that I am missing some data? Unfortunetly I do not remember the original status message when one drive failed to compare.). So I did "SIGNAT" and rebooted... and it nolonger displays the raidset upon reboot. I can run "LeVeL2ReScUe" again and it does the same thing all over again.

The Volume Set doesn't seem to display after any of the recoveries.

At this point, my main objective is to get the data visable in Windows so I can back up all of this data.

I do have backups but they are remote and will take weeks to recover.
 
The failed drive which had been listed as "failed" (iirc) is now listed as "Free". But it must be unreadable since when I do "LeVeL2ReScUe" it isn't part of the raid.
 
I am sure someone here knows. I am not that guy - I have worked exclusively with ZFS stuff.

Not very helpful, I'm afraid.
 
Joust said:
I am sure someone here knows. I am not that guy - I have worked exclusively with ZFS stuff.

Not very helpful, I'm afraid.
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No worries. Going forward I am looking into a better way of handling these drives...
 
bigddybn said:
And by a better way you should really mean a backup plan. RAID isn't it.
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Yes yes. We all know RAID isn't redundancy - he has off-site backup, he just doesn't want to use it (slow). Thats a thing.
 
Exactly. I should have had a local backup but I didn't. Lesson learned.

I am now looking into Unraid gong forward and using it as a NAS to store all of the files for my Windows based server.
 
Please post a COMPLETE log from the card. Do you know the original positions of all the drives in the array? Did the original drive that failed actually fail for cause or did it just drop out of the array on a timeout?
 
mwroobel said:
Please post a COMPLETE log from the card.
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Log is as follows. It appears to have reset. When I started the only events were from reboots and then the failed drive a year ago.



System Events Information
Time Device Event Type Elapse Time Errors
2019-01-19 17:08:37 Proxy Or Inband HTTP Log In
2019-01-19 17:07:03 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 14:20:28 IDE Channel 1 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:18:32 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 14:18:20 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 14:17:19 IDE Channel 4 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:17:18 IDE Channel 3 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:17:16 IDE Channel 2 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:16:58 IDE Channel 1 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 14:16:54 IDE Channel 2 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 14:16:50 IDE Channel 1 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:16:46 IDE Channel 2 Device Removed
2019-01-18 14:16:15 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:53:07 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:49:31 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 13:49:31 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:47:38 IDE Channel 2 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 13:47:34 IDE Channel 2 Device Removed
2019-01-18 13:44:57 Proxy Or Inband HTTP Log In
2019-01-18 13:43:33 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 13:43:33 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:42:43 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:42:18 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:37:06 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:34:48 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:34:37 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:33:54 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:33:35 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 13:33:35 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:32:28 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:32:16 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:28:37 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:19:18 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:16:24 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:16:15 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:13:09 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:12:57 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 13:12:57 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:12:04 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:11:55 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:11:11 IDE Channel 2 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 13:10:40 IDE Channel 2 Device Removed
2019-01-18 13:09:34 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:09:22 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 13:09:22 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:08:15 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 13:08:05 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:02:34 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 13:00:46 IDE Channel 2 Device Removed
2019-01-18 13:00:45 IDE Channel 1 Device Removed
2019-01-18 13:00:43 IDE Channel 3 Device Removed
2019-01-18 13:00:33 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 12:25:26 IDE Channel 4 Device Removed
2019-01-18 12:19:52 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 12:19:43 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 12:19:43 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 12:15:26 IDE Channel 4 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 12:14:53 IDE Channel 3 Device Inserted
2019-01-18 12:14:46 IDE Channel 4 Device Removed
2019-01-18 12:14:45 IDE Channel 3 Device Removed
2019-01-18 12:14:08 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In
2019-01-18 12:13:59 Incomplete RAID Discovered
2019-01-18 12:13:59 H/W Monitor Raid Powered On
2019-01-18 12:12:27 RS232 Terminal VT100 Log In




mwroobel said:
Do you know the original positions of all the drives in the array?
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No.

mwroobel said:
Did the original drive that failed actually fail for cause or did it just drop out of the array on a timeout?
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I haven't done any testing to it, but I suspect that it failed due to heat since it was positioned with no airflow (I've learned a lot since I built this system nearly 10 years ago). I had rebooted the system multiple times before replacing the drive and it never joined back in (I didn't actually realize that it had failed until recently).
 
I am implimenting new solutions as we speak such as better documentation as to drive positions, saving logs out more often etc.
 
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