Greetings,
Has anyone used UFS Explorer for RAID reconstruction? If so, how easy was it? How successful was it?
A friend of mine lost his consumer grade RAID array that appears to be running an embedded Linux OS with software RAID and an ext3 filesystem. I'd try RAID Reconstructor, but it appears to only handle Windows filesystems, though it might be able to put the RAID array together anyhow.
UFS Explorer Professional has a RAID reconstruction option and I've had good experience with a more limited version for HFS file recovery so I thought I'd check it out.
Thanks.
-David
I ve had moderate success with UFS reconstructing a RAID 5 missing one complete drive. In general I think UFS is pretty comfortale with Linux file systems.
The only difficulty I encountered was knowing the ordering of the drives and where to place the 'virtual' drive. It seemed to make a difference, im not quite sure why perhaps specific to that array.
There was also a huge overhead in time, I think some 200 odd hours.
You can download a trial version to see if its going to work you, the only restriction is exporting files greater than 16kb