RE: Utterly Gutted

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My problem (now 18 months ago!) was that the controller card was
knackered in a lightning storm, so I lost the whole array. Fortunately
everything of value was backed up, but I did lose some stuff I was
working on and it took a while to get everything up and running again. I
now no longer bother with raid but do have all clients on the network
saving to the server and the the server doing a nightly backup to
another box on the network. I am planning to extend this to do a nightly
backup to a server I have hosted in the US, but need to work out exactly
how to do it :-(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 August 2004 21:16
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted
>
>
> Didn't Graham Howe have a similar problem about a year ago?
>
> Shitty luck though - my comiserations.
>
> Phil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Purves [mailto:CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 29 August 2004 21:00
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some of
you
> > don't make the mistakes I did......
> >
> > I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000 hardware
raid
> > card with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by any stretch of the
> > imagination) thinking this would keep my data safe. One of
> the drives
> > failed yesterday -  I didn't panic - put in a replacement -
> the array
> > rebuilt itself and all the lights went green. Rebooted XP and
> > nothing..... the array appeared as un-partitioned space.
> All the data
> > is gone including all our photos (including those of my newborn
> > daughter) / videos all our documents. The 500 albums I
> ripped and god
> > knows what else.
> >
> > I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they
> are in any
> > way safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get backing up
> - Raid as
> > far as I can see is worthless. The one time I needed it it
failed.
> >
> >
> > Chris (Gutted)
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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