Hi all, I'm trying to recover some data from and old Snap Server 4200 (c2003) belonging to a local charity. It has 4 80Gb IDE drives, and runs some sort of Linux kernel with their (snap's) own applications on top.
It won't boot to the Snap OS (Guardian OS 3.1.079 - quite an old one, major version 4 and 5 have succeeded it) but it does boot to a "recovery" console with a simple web page showing some details. From my google searches the OS resides on the disks (perhaps just the first one?) but I don't know where this recovery console is coming from. I've managed to put Gentoo 2008.0_beta2 minimal (because I happened to have the iso) on a USB key and made it bootable. It boots and fdisk -l shows me the four drives and some partitions. (Ubuntu wouldn't even boot ;) I don't have the original CD's with the OS recovery on it, nor can I download it (upgraded versions are $600+). I can't even find any *ahem* backup versions online in the usual channels. OK so the question: How can I recover the RAID data? It's RAID5 (probably) with 4 disks. Can I just run some up-to-date raid tools and mount the drives or do I have to get exactly the same kernal and setup? I don't have much experience with RAID. (It's software raid - no card just 2 IDE channels with master and slave). Once I've recovered the data I don't really care what goes on it - there are some great free NAS OS's, but it's mounting the RAID partition that I'm not sure about. Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? thanks for any suggestions, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> "Don't fear the pen. When in doubt, draw a pretty picture." --Baker's Third Law of Design.
