| Glad it was NOT an MS Platform Shows how good the SUN/Oracle platform is if it can recover data from corrupted disks....
If it were an MS solution there would be nothing.
Shows why companies that rely on their data don't use Microsoft. |
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 jester121Premium
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Lake Zurich, IL | It's a wonder they're still in business, since so few people use them.  |
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fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | reply to itguy05
Ummm.. last I checked, it's noting really to do with SUN/Orocale, Microsoft, etc.. a hard drive failure or what ever is a failure.. but, you're right to say that it's amazing that a HARD DRIVE can be recovered..
It also shows that a GOOD company would have a backup system in place on anything mission critical... this was a complete failure on some admins' part. |
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 FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
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yep nobody uses microsoft. nobody |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
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Valencia, CA | reply to fiberguy
RAID should be recoverable.
Backups, should be done, and should work. The question is... when was the last successful backup perfomed ? Were there issues in replacing hardware (old?).
I've had very good success rate on SUN boxes. Its a simpler OS in general (*nix), however OS = OS disks, Data = Data disks.
You can always reinstall OS. You can't always recover data.
If you have a decent data center management, patches/OS/firmware upgrades will typically be kept in check. I've known of issues in the past of attempting to get disks/RAID controllers and having different rev versions... painful.
Many high end vendor products are well integrated - Eg. I worked on a DG-UX device with EMC storage on fiber channel. Disk failure (OS) was mitigated, as the EMC controller rebuilt the disk, even while the box was powered down.
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The OS has little to do with data recovery. An OS can crash, but your data volumes and arrays are still there.
Before you go and blame the OS the servers are running on, (or praise it), perhaps you should spend some more time studying data recovery, data storage, NAS, SAN, etc. And for that matter, read up on replication & backup technologies.
Blaming this on an OS, or praising the OS - whomever the maker - shows how little you know about corporate infrastructure. 
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What SAN hardware and software solutions does Microsoft offer? |
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you sure your in it ? Or what ?
Don't know about you , but any system that is backed up can recover from bad disks.
second point is ntfs is actually very sturdy and with alternate streams built into the file system recovers very well from disk corruption.
Just some times a vital file gets hit , which has not happened to me since 2002 when I upgraded to XP from win 2k. Maybe you need to review your back up and data retention strategies.
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