Hello Everyone, Thanks to everyone who helped me to learn about RAIDs, starting at the end and working backwards :) I brought my system back up, minus the raid0 partition that was corrupted. My question now is what's the best way to back up my server? Basically, I have one more (software?) raid1 array, a cluster setup on 5 subnodes (but I don't see any of their data here, so prob just all scratch and OS space), and then a hardware RAID controller (10.54.1.100) attached to 2 raid setups (scratch, apps, and data as one setup and then last week we added the shacks as a seperate 12TB array. It came as a RAID, but I think we had to decouple it b/c our OS couldn't read it), and then we have the computer with mounts referencing our main Windows server (10.1.1.17), which is backed up by our Windows guy. Should I use the empty shacks as backup space? I hope that all makes sense. If not, please let me know. I really want to back up and ensure thsi never happens again. Thank you! This is the output from `df -h`: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.8G 7.5G 2.3G 77% / none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/md0 459G 140G 296G 33% /export /dev/sda2 2.0G 1.4G 561M 72% /var tmpfs 241M 3.8M 238M 2% /var/lib/ganglia/rrds 10.54.1.100:/mnt/RAID/FSDATA 1.1T 812G 223G 79% /data 10.54.1.100:/mnt/RAID/apps 1.1T 812G 223G 79% /apps 10.54.1.100:/scratch 72G 13G 55G 19% /scratch 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack1 2.0T 103M 1.9T 1% /mnt/shack1 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack2 1.8T 238G 1.5T 14% /mnt/fs3 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack3 1.8T 285G 1.5T 17% /mnt/fs4 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack4 1.8T 100M 1.7T 1% /mnt/shack4 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack5 1.8T 100M 1.7T 1% /mnt/shack5 10.54.1.100:/mnt/shack6 1.7T 101M 1.6T 1% /mnt/shack6 //10.1.1.17/Scanner_data2 11T 4.7T 5.4T 47% /mnt/scanner_data2 //10.1.1.17/SCANNER_DATA 11T 4.7T 5.4T 47% /mnt/scanner_data //10.1.1.17/shared 11T 4.7T 5.4T 47% /mnt/shared //10.1.1.17/fMRI 11T 4.7T 5.4T 47% /mnt/fMRI //10.1.1.17/USERS 11T 4.7T 5.4T 47% /mnt/users /export/home/fs431 459G 140G 296G 33% /home/fs431 /export/home/coreg 459G 140G 296G 33% /home/coreg On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:26 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Jeff Sadino wrote: > > Thank you John. The thing is my data was not overwritten, corrupted, > > etc. Some was, but I know which parts. Basically, I just cleared the > > file system designation. So if a file is 64K, does the first 32K on > > drive 1 contain the first half of the file and the first 32K on drive > > 2 contain the second half, or are the 32 size chunks on random locations? > > didn't you say you did a mkfs ext3 over this stripe's partition? that > would have overwirtten all the root directory areas, made a total mess > of things. > > ifyou -just- used a fdisk program to change the partition type, quick, > change it back to what it was, and put it all back. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100308/6804e724/attachment-0004.html>