I needed to take a copy of the data (NTFS) on a RAID 0 array so that I could destroy the RAID 0 array and restore the data onto a RAID 10 array. As well as this one of the RAID 0 drives would be used to replace the existing OS (Win7) drive.
So, rather than just copy + paste from the RAID 0 array to another disk I decided to use Clonezilla (as I've used it in the past and it's worked great!). The RAID 0 array was 2x1TB drives with ~750GB of data on it. As I only had a 1TB drive available for the image I reduced the partition down to under 1TB and took a partition image instead of a disk image so that it would fit on the drive I had available.
I somehow managed to take the partition image of the RAID 0 array even though this is fakeRAID. At the time I wasn't aware fakeRAID wasn't supported. After taking the image I proceeded to destroy the RAID 0 array and clone the OS drive from it's original drive to one of the 1TB drives from the RAID 0 array.
This is where I'm now stuck. The partition image is a dd-img which when written back to a single drive (as it won't pick up any RAID stuff I create with it being fakeRAID) shows up as RAW in windows and is unusable. Using some of the various linux tools I've discovered that the image has the filesystem type 'promise_fasttrack_raid_member' rather than NTFS and because of that I can't mount it or do anything useful with it to access the contents of it.
I'm a doughnut for not checking the image before destroying the RAID 0 array and if I can't recover the contents of the image then I'll just have to start again and move on (the data is mainly Virtualbox VDI files).
Because there's so much data and the image is a dd-img it takes a LONG time to do anything with it. The other thing I'm quite confused with is how I managed to take a clone of the partition on the (fake)RAID 0 array as this is obviously unsupported and creating a new RAID 0 array doesn't show up in Clonezilla!
I've tried quite a few different things to get access to the data but to no avail so any help or suggestion is very much appreciated!
Thanks
Adam
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Hi,
A bit of background info;
I needed to take a copy of the data (NTFS) on a RAID 0 array so that I could destroy the RAID 0 array and restore the data onto a RAID 10 array. As well as this one of the RAID 0 drives would be used to replace the existing OS (Win7) drive.
So, rather than just copy + paste from the RAID 0 array to another disk I decided to use Clonezilla (as I've used it in the past and it's worked great!). The RAID 0 array was 2x1TB drives with ~750GB of data on it. As I only had a 1TB drive available for the image I reduced the partition down to under 1TB and took a partition image instead of a disk image so that it would fit on the drive I had available.
I somehow managed to take the partition image of the RAID 0 array even though this is fakeRAID. At the time I wasn't aware fakeRAID wasn't supported. After taking the image I proceeded to destroy the RAID 0 array and clone the OS drive from it's original drive to one of the 1TB drives from the RAID 0 array.
This is where I'm now stuck. The partition image is a dd-img which when written back to a single drive (as it won't pick up any RAID stuff I create with it being fakeRAID) shows up as RAW in windows and is unusable. Using some of the various linux tools I've discovered that the image has the filesystem type 'promise_fasttrack_raid_member' rather than NTFS and because of that I can't mount it or do anything useful with it to access the contents of it.
I'm a doughnut for not checking the image before destroying the RAID 0 array and if I can't recover the contents of the image then I'll just have to start again and move on (the data is mainly Virtualbox VDI files).
Because there's so much data and the image is a dd-img it takes a LONG time to do anything with it. The other thing I'm quite confused with is how I managed to take a clone of the partition on the (fake)RAID 0 array as this is obviously unsupported and creating a new RAID 0 array doesn't show up in Clonezilla!
I've tried quite a few different things to get access to the data but to no avail so any help or suggestion is very much appreciated!
Thanks
Adam
As mentioned here:
http://clonezilla.org/
FakeRAID/Software RAID/Firmware RAID is not supported by Clonezilla yet. So dd is used…
Steven.