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Old 01-19-2008, 05:01 PM   #1
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raid1 - recovery after crash


hi all!

please if you can help me how to recovery raid on linux centos system, after crash...

i have raid1.

now i can not boot linux, to fix it using sfdisk of mdadm...


can you give me some advice how to fix it? thank you in advance!
 
Old 01-19-2008, 05:41 PM   #2
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Being a raid 1 this means the drives are mirrored. So data is written to both drives identically. So if software issue both have the same issue unless one drive fails but the data is still written to the other and keeps going.

Now what might help is explain in detail the issue you are having and when it happens during the boot process.

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Old 01-19-2008, 05:42 PM   #3
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Do you have true hardware RAID (through a raid card), or was this just 2 drives plugged into a motherboard, which is software RAID?

The simple solution would be to stick a live CD/DVD in (knoppix for example), and see if all of your data is still on the mirrored disk. If it is, install grub to the mirror, bring it up, then rebuild mdadm with a replacement disk for the one that failed. If it is hardware RAID, then all you have to do is reboot with a replacement drive, and the controller will take care of everything.

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Old 01-20-2008, 03:31 AM   #4
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Do you have true hardware RAID (through a raid card), or was this just 2 drives plugged into a motherboard, which is software RAID?

The simple solution would be to stick a live CD/DVD in (knoppix for example), and see if all of your data is still on the mirrored disk. If it is, install grub to the mirror, bring it up, then rebuild mdadm with a replacement disk for the one that failed. If it is hardware RAID, then all you have to do is reboot with a replacement drive, and the controller will take care of everything.

Peace,
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it's software raid.

so, all i have to do is to connect new disk instead of old one, and boot system from rescue disk? after that to install grub and to mirror disks with mdadm. and that's all?


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Old 01-20-2008, 07:26 AM   #5
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what does raid have to do with networking? please pay attention to the forums you post in in future. moved to Linux - Newbie.
 
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No, you first have to see what (if any) data is safe. As Brian1 said, RAID1 is a mirror, so if you did something that erased things or screwed them up, it is going to be the same on both disks. If it is a "simple" failure, like the disk itself screwed up somehow, then follow the very detailed instructions on this page:

http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_..._a_raid1_array

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Old 01-20-2008, 01:33 PM   #7
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thank you for your answers. it was a great help to recover system.

now (it looks) that it works well, but...

on a fdisk -l command, i got list od 3 partitions, with following errors:

Disk /dev/md1/ doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2/ doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md0/ doesn't contain a valid partition table

how can i fix this one?

thank you in advance!
 
Old 01-21-2008, 01:17 PM   #8
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i noticed one more problem... please if somebody can tell me something about next messages (from /var/log/messages):

.........
Jan 22 01:27:22 markerm kernel: md: md3: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
.........
Jan 22 01:27:22 markerm kernel: md: md1: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
.........
Jan 22 01:27:22 markerm kernel: md: md0: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
.........
Jan 22 01:27:22 markerm kernel: md: md4: raid array is not clean -- starting background reconstruction
.........


updated: on http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=101257 i found that this is "normal", that RAID1 volumes need to be synchronised across the two hard disks. it that true?

thank you in advance!

Last edited by proNick; 01-21-2008 at 01:31 PM.
 
Old 01-21-2008, 04:37 PM   #9
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Never used Software raid so I don't know. Google for the error and see what you get might help.

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