Server Data Recovery:
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Server/RAID data recovery is most commonly associated with RAID array
failures, hard drive crashes, power surges or power outages, fire damage, floods/water damage, or
other physical damage to a disk, drive, or a RAID or SCSI controller. |
Some of the most common data loss situations in servers
are as follow:
- Server not booting up;
- Partitions and drives inaccessible drives
- Extremely sloe server; Applications and services not
running properly.
- Corruption of files/data
- Bad sectors in RAID array members;
- Virus infection or malicious scripts;
- Hard disk drive component failure;
- Hard Disk Read/Write Head Crashes
- Server hard disk failure as a result of fire, or flood damage
- Media surface contamination and damage
- Accidental reformatting of partitions
- Accidental deletion of data by network users
The increasing complexity of many server operating systems results in
additional loss situations:
- RAID array failure;
- Loss of Server registry configuration;
- Intermittent drive failure resulting in configuration corruption;
- Accidental reconfiguration of RAID drives;
- Multiple drive failure;
- Accidental replacement of media components
Supported Operating Systems, Platforms, and File Systems:
Windows 2000/2003 Professional and Server with NTFS, FAT32 or
FAT16 file systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped
or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
Windows NT Workstation and Server with NTFS or FAT16 file systems
using standalone, spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
UNIX on Intel and Non-Intel platforms, including:
- SCO OpenServer and Xenix
- UnixWare from Novell and SCO
- Solaris on Intel platforms, Sun/SPARC equipment, with UFS and VERITAS VxFS
file systems
- Linux with EXT2FS,XFS,REISERFS and JFS file systems on standalone and RAID
volumes
- BSD-based systems such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, BSDI, LynxOS
- QNX
- HPUX on Hewlett-Packard workstations with HFS and VERITAS VxFS file systems
on standalone and LVM volumes
- IRIX on SGI workstations with EFS and XFS file systems
- VMS and OpenVMS running on Compaq and DEC equipment using ODS file system
- AIX on IBM RS/6000 with jfs file systems on LVM volume
- Novell NetWare with FAT and NSS file systems using standalone,
spanned, striped or fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
- Windows XP Professional and Home with NTFS, FAT32 or FAT16 file
systems using standalone basic partitions or dynamic spanned, striped or
fault-tolerant (RAID) volumes
- Windows ME, 98, 95 with FAT32 or FAT16 file systems
- MS-DOS and variants using 12 or 16 bit FAT file systems
- Compressed volume managers including Stacker, DoubleSpace and
DriveSpace
- OS/2 with FAT and HPFS file systems
Apple Macintosh:
- OS 9 with HFS and HFS+ file systems
- OS X with HFS, HFS+ and UNIX UFS file systems
- All Macintosh hardware using SCSI, IDE and FireWire interfaces, including
software RAID drivers such as SoftRaid and FWB Raid
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