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Data Recovery Buffalo Terastation died and I am desperatly trying to get off the data RAID 1
Experts,
I am desperate here. Tons of data on a buffalo terastation is hopefully still on the drives. I had the system set up in a RAID 1 (mirroring) configuration. It died, so now I have 4 hard drives that I can't get any data off of. The drives are formatted xfs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried to look at the files by hooking them up to a computer that I put knoppix in the CD drive. It said "can't read superblock" Help me please.
Thank you,
Ben
I am desperate here. Tons of data on a buffalo terastation is hopefully still on the drives. I had the system set up in a RAID 1 (mirroring) configuration. It died, so now I have 4 hard drives that I can't get any data off of. The drives are formatted xfs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried to look at the files by hooking them up to a computer that I put knoppix in the CD drive. It said "can't read superblock" Help me please.
Thank you,
Ben
Are you sure it's in a RAID1 configuration? If there are four drives, it would be more likely that they are in a RAID5 configuration. If it is a RAID1 config, then there should be two drivesets of two drives each -- all 4 drives will not contain the same data. It's also possible you have a RAID10 (or RAID0+1) configuration.
I'm not an expert on linux, but Wikipedia says that XFS is supported on many linux distributions. I'd probably try a few more cd-bootable ones, like DSL or the FreeBSD Live CD.
If that doesn't work, I would suggest installing a version of linux that you KNOW supports XFS on a new hard drive, and then trying to access your hard drives from the install. See the first couple paragraphs of Wikipedia's article on XFS below:
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XFS is the oldest journaling file system available for UNIX systems,[dubious discuss] and has a mature, stable and well-debugged codebase. Development of XFS was started by Silicon Graphics, in 1993, with first deployment being seen on IRIX 5.3 in 1994. The filesystem was released under the GNU General Public License in May 2000, and ported to Linux, with the first distribution support appearing in 2001/2002. It is available in almost all Linux distributions today.
XFS has been merged into the mainline Linux 2.4 (as of 2.4.25, when Marcelo Tosatti judged it stable enough) and 2.6 kernels, making it almost universally available on Linux systems. Installation programs for the SuSE, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware, Kate OS, Zenwalk, VectorLinux, Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions all offer XFS as a choice of filesystem. FreeBSD gained read-only support for XFS in December 2005 and in June 2006 experimental write support was introduced to FreeBSD-7.0-CURRENT. Fedora permits choice of XFS during installation, though the choice is only visible during partitioning if XFS is requested, either by typing "linux xfs" when booting initially from optical media, or by including XFS in the pxelinux code for a completely network-booted install:
"kernel vmlinuz"
"append xfs initrd=initrd.img"
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If you think you may have a different RAID configuration, try using RAID Reconstructor to recover the data:
http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm
Hope this helps,
Shane
I'm not an expert on linux, but Wikipedia says that XFS is supported on many linux distributions. I'd probably try a few more cd-bootable ones, like DSL or the FreeBSD Live CD.
If that doesn't work, I would suggest installing a version of linux that you KNOW supports XFS on a new hard drive, and then trying to access your hard drives from the install. See the first couple paragraphs of Wikipedia's article on XFS below:
=========
XFS is the oldest journaling file system available for UNIX systems,[dubious discuss] and has a mature, stable and well-debugged codebase. Development of XFS was started by Silicon Graphics, in 1993, with first deployment being seen on IRIX 5.3 in 1994. The filesystem was released under the GNU General Public License in May 2000, and ported to Linux, with the first distribution support appearing in 2001/2002. It is available in almost all Linux distributions today.
XFS has been merged into the mainline Linux 2.4 (as of 2.4.25, when Marcelo Tosatti judged it stable enough) and 2.6 kernels, making it almost universally available on Linux systems. Installation programs for the SuSE, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware, Kate OS, Zenwalk, VectorLinux, Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions all offer XFS as a choice of filesystem. FreeBSD gained read-only support for XFS in December 2005 and in June 2006 experimental write support was introduced to FreeBSD-7.0-CURRENT. Fedora permits choice of XFS during installation, though the choice is only visible during partitioning if XFS is requested, either by typing "linux xfs" when booting initially from optical media, or by including XFS in the pxelinux code for a completely network-booted install:
"kernel vmlinuz"
"append xfs initrd=initrd.img"
=====
If you think you may have a different RAID configuration, try using RAID Reconstructor to recover the data:
http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm
Hope this helps,
Shane
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No problem. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Shane
Shane
Great post!!
I had the exact same issue. UFSExplorer helped me copy the data off onto a placement box. Cost was around $70 US. Worth every penny.
One more side note to all...my Buffalo LinkStation ran for about 18 months and hard failed. Wouldn't even power up and both drives were in perfect shape. This is a very poor quality device. Buffalo offered NO assistance other than press the power button twice then good luck. It's worth a few dollars more to build up a real server.
Thanks for the help!!
I had the exact same issue. UFSExplorer helped me copy the data off onto a placement box. Cost was around $70 US. Worth every penny.
One more side note to all...my Buffalo LinkStation ran for about 18 months and hard failed. Wouldn't even power up and both drives were in perfect shape. This is a very poor quality device. Buffalo offered NO assistance other than press the power button twice then good luck. It's worth a few dollars more to build up a real server.
Thanks for the help!!
benjam222 and marknabors-
How did you copy the files over using UFS Explorer? I've been trying to find a step-by-step process to do this. I have a 2 y/o Linkstation Live 1TB unit with a bad HDD (6 light error). I am currently trying to use a UFS Explorer product to read the LS' XFS file system. Via UFS, I can see the 1TB HDD (connected via SATA in my Vista PC).
I am using Raise Data Recovery for XFS. It sees my NTFS-formatted partitions on my Vista PC and I can browse the files. The second drive (1TB LS drive) shows no partition at all. From here, how do actually get this old HDD drive prepped & ready to move the files off of it to a new one within the UFS Explorer program?
I'm thinking I need to 1) "Find Lost Partition," 2) "Recover Lost Data," then 3) "Save RAW image" file. Once an image is saved, do I just swap in a new drive and load the image then transfer to the LS enclosure? OR can I transfer my LS files to a NTFS drive in my Vista PC and transfer to a new NAS? I am willing o purchase a new NAS and start new, but would like to keep my 2yr collection of media.
Any step-by-step guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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How did you copy the files over using UFS Explorer? I've been trying to find a step-by-step process to do this. I have a 2 y/o Linkstation Live 1TB unit with a bad HDD (6 light error). I am currently trying to use a UFS Explorer product to read the LS' XFS file system. Via UFS, I can see the 1TB HDD (connected via SATA in my Vista PC).
I am using Raise Data Recovery for XFS. It sees my NTFS-formatted partitions on my Vista PC and I can browse the files. The second drive (1TB LS drive) shows no partition at all. From here, how do actually get this old HDD drive prepped & ready to move the files off of it to a new one within the UFS Explorer program?
I'm thinking I need to 1) "Find Lost Partition," 2) "Recover Lost Data," then 3) "Save RAW image" file. Once an image is saved, do I just swap in a new drive and load the image then transfer to the LS enclosure? OR can I transfer my LS files to a NTFS drive in my Vista PC and transfer to a new NAS? I am willing o purchase a new NAS and start new, but would like to keep my 2yr collection of media.
Any step-by-step guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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Cheers