Hello, We have a RAID-5 4x 250GB SATA running on an Intel SATA Hardware Raid controller. Yesterday a drive failed, which was replaced, however we did not have another matching drive, therefore it didn't like what it saw and wouldn't rebuild. Someone accessed files over HTTP and for some reason the filesystem went into readonly mode. The system is now degradding to 3 drives Raid-5, and is at 20% after 12 hours. The problem we have is a critical folder exists but has nothing inside it, except a few question marks when the directory is listed via bash. My question is:- 1) Is it likely after the raid has gone from 750GB to 495GB that we will ever see these files again? 2) Can you recommend any recovery software which might be able to get these files back? 3) Has anyone experienced random loss of files from a rebuild of RAID-5 before? I appreciate the importance of backing up, unfortunately, this is the only folder in the system that wasn't set up in the backup routine properly, and yes, Murphy struck again... Thanks to anyone who can help, Regards, Stuart -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/RAID-5-Degraded%2C-Seemed-to-have-lost-files--Please-help%21-tp26792453p26792453.html Sent from the linux-raid mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
