[OT] SCSI disk recovery

Bruce, I've had a motherboard on a server die. To get back up and operating,
I simply moved one SCSI card and primary SCSI drive from the server to a
workstation PC that had enough resources (enough to get by for a few hours
or days) to act as a temporary server, disconnected the IDE drive on the
work station, changed IP address, etc., and was back up and running Vantage
in about an hour. Only problem was hoping nothing happened to that SCSI
drive in the meantime as there was no mirrored drive, no tape backup, etc as
there was on the server. I did many backups during the time the temp server
was operating, and burned CD's with the backups just in case.

-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf
Of Bruce Butler
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 7:20 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] SCSI disk recovery


I dodged a bullet yesterday. Our CPU heatsink from our server had a
plastic clip which broke and caused it to fall off. The BIOS caught it
with the temperature setting threshold. However, I thought, what would
happen (Disaster Recovery Afterthought) if my mainboard died. How would
I get the data off my SCSI disks, given, it is attached to an onboard
RAID controller? I am going to check in with Adaptec on this, but
thought I would shoot it out to the group.



Thank you,



Bruce Butler, IT Manager

Knappe & Koester

18 Bradco St

Keene, NH 03431

bbutler@...

p.603.355.1166

f. 603.355.2266





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I dodged a bullet yesterday. Our CPU heatsink from our server had a
plastic clip which broke and caused it to fall off. The BIOS caught it
with the temperature setting threshold. However, I thought, what would
happen (Disaster Recovery Afterthought) if my mainboard died. How would
I get the data off my SCSI disks, given, it is attached to an onboard
RAID controller? I am going to check in with Adaptec on this, but
thought I would shoot it out to the group.



Thank you,



Bruce Butler, IT Manager

Knappe & Koester

18 Bradco St

Keene, NH 03431

bbutler@...

p.603.355.1166

f. 603.355.2266





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Having just gone through, (going through) just such a situation. You can
pull one disk out of your raid and use any compatible scsi card to "recover
the data". We put our data on a hurry up back up server with no redundancy.
In the process my 4 channel Adaptec was also fried in addition to the MOBO.
The old scsi was out of manufacture so I had to replace with a different
model. As a result the Raid definitions were gone. When the new raid was
set up the existing SCSI's were reformatted. Do not expect to be able to
pop your old drives onto a different card. Unless you keep precise
duplicate parts (SCSI cards, Mobo's, etc) be happy you can keep the data and
assume that you are rebuilding new. Your best bet is to build a second
server to take over if you mains go down. Then you can recover at less than
an insane pace.

Shirley Graver
Rubber Associates

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From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Bruce Butler
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 8:20 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [OT] SCSI disk recovery

I dodged a bullet yesterday. Our CPU heatsink from our server had a
plastic clip which broke and caused it to fall off. The BIOS caught it
with the temperature setting threshold. However, I thought, what would
happen (Disaster Recovery Afterthought) if my mainboard died. How would
I get the data off my SCSI disks, given, it is attached to an onboard
RAID controller? I am going to check in with Adaptec on this, but
thought I would shoot it out to the group.



Thank you,



Bruce Butler, IT Manager

Knappe & Koester

18 Bradco St

Keene, NH 03431

bbutler@...

p.603.355.1166

f. 603.355.2266





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