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Testing raidpycovery through mdadm. Hi! I'm still working on polishing raidpycovery. I started doing real experiments today to recover data from broken RAID5s. In order to do it, I used linux' md. It allowed me to study md a little bit while testing raidpycovery. So, let's get our hands dirty. First, let's create a directory where we will work, for example: $ mkdir raid5$ cd raid5 Now let's create the separate images where we will create our RAID5. . $ for i in 0 1 2 3; do dd if=/dev/zero of=disk$i bs=1M count=10; done10+0 records in10+0 records out10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.0584047 s, 180 MB/s10+0 records in10+0 records out10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.100258 s, 105 MB/s10+0 records in10+0 records out10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.0691083 s, 152 MB/s10+0 records in10+0 records out10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.0508324 s, 206 MB/s$ Now we have four empty files that we will feed into md to create our RAID to do our tests.

Great. Now, let's format it so we can use it as a normal partition: There you go. . $ . Not good. . $ . Disk Recovery Software and Hard Drive Recovery tool for Windows. Raidpycovery : Code : Edmundo. Broken RAID5 you said? Don't use Java anymore. Go with python instead! So, you have a broken RAID5 and found the article I wrote for the Free Software Magazine 5 years ago about it and would like to give it a shot. First off: Good luck!

You are gonna need it. Second: When I solved that problem I didn't have any experience in python whatsoever plus Oracle hadn't bought Sun, sued Google, etc. During the course of these 5 years I have received some requests to help people out with their situation and it's been a very nice experience to hack on those devices here or there to get the data back. Every single time I've had to help someone with it, I always get the question of how to run the .java classes I made. Given the gripes over oracle/java recently I have decided to translate the library to python for people who want to use it so they don't have to go around trying to learn how to compile/run things in Java (at least in GNU/Linux). The project is here: You can get it very easily by using bazaar: How to recover from a broken RAID5. In this article I will describe an experience I had that began with the failure of some RAID5 disks at the Hospital of Pediatric Especialties, where I work.

While I wouldn’t wish such an event on my worst enemy, it was something that made me learn about the power of knowledge—a deep knowledge, which is so important in the hacking culture. Are you in dire straights with your hard drive? We at Free Software Magazine had a major hardware crash. The good guys at DTI DATA performed hard drive recovery and saved our magazine! This article has downloads! A 5-disk (18GB each) RAID5 was mounted on a HP Netserver Rack Storage/12. Due to a power outage yesterday, it would no longer recognize the RAID. The IT manager decided to call in some “gurus” to try to get the data back on-line. The gurus are still trying to get the data back on-line. These guys are stubborn, aren’t they? The IT manager called me late in the afternoon. . # for i in a b c d; do dd if=/dev/sd$i of=image$i.dat bs=4k; done Eureka!

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