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Re: recommendations for data recovery?
From: Lee Weers <weersl () CENTRAL EDU>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:24:11 -0500
At a previous employment we have used this company to recover a corrupt Exchange database. http://www.ontrack.com -----Original Message----- From: Christopher E. Cramer [mailto:chris.cramer () DUKE EDU] Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:28 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] recommendations for data recovery? Let me start by apologizing to those who receive multiple copies of this, but we're in need of a bit of help. One of the departments at Duke has been using an Apple XServe RAID and ran into a problem. As I understand it, one of the drives went bad. While restoring the replacement, a second drive went bad. The department was able to send the disks off to a data recovery shop which was able to repair at least one of the bad drives. So, in principle, we have the N-1 disks available to restore the data. The problem is that the XServe RAID is not recognizing and incorporating the drives into the array. We're working with Apple on addressing the problem, however, in the meantime we are starting to plan for the contingency that the drives can't be reintegrated into the RAID. We have spoken with the initial data recovery shop about the possibility of taking the data off of all N-1 disks and performing the striping and parity checking necessary to recover the original information. Unfortunately, this appears to be outside of the company's area of expertise. Given that, we are looking for recommendations for data recovery companies who may have done something like this. If you know of anyone who has such experience, please let me know. Sincerely, Chris -- Christopher E. Cramer, Ph.D. University Information Technology Security Officer Duke University, Office of Information Technology 334 Blackwell St., Suite 2106, Durham, NC 27701 PH: 919-660-7003 FAX: 919-668-2953 CELL: 919-210-0528
Current thread:
- recommendations for data recovery? Christopher E. Cramer (Aug 08)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: recommendations for data recovery? Cal Frye (Aug 08)
- Re: recommendations for data recovery? Lee Weers (Sep 27)
- Re: recommendations for data recovery? Jeff Giacobbe (Sep 27)
- Re: recommendations for data recovery? Koerber, Jeff (Sep 27)
- Re: recommendations for data recovery? Christopher E. Cramer (Sep 27)