Retrodata RAID Recovery

Hard drive failure

Xserve RAID controller failure

RAID rebuild failure

Power surge or spike

Accidental re-format

Damaged metadata

System corruption

Xserve will not boot

Apple Server recovery specialists.
Emergency recovery experts.

“The Apple OS X Server will not boot”.  “The Xserve has crashed”, or a “hard drive has failed”.

“The RAID has crashed, and a RAID rebuild failed.  We hot-swapped a failed RAID disk drive, but the volume is not mounting at all.”

“The Server’s RAID controller has died after a power surge and caused system corruption. Now the server will not boot.”

“The Server is down , and we cannot access the data. We think that the file system is corrupt.”

These are typical causes of Apple Server failure. We successfully recover data from all of these – and more.

If you have an Apple OS X Server or an Xserve with a failed hard drive, a crashed RAID array or a failed RAID controller, we’ve been working with Apple systems and software for many years, and have the experience and skills required for Apple Server recovery and XRAID recovery, regardless of the failure type. We recover all models, from the legacy Workgroup Server, to the latest Apple Xserve.  We have experience of all versions of the Apple Server operating system.

If your attempts to recover the server or the storage array have failed; if you’ve tried a RAID rebuild, multiple server reboots, or hot-swapping a hard drive and none of those has worked, you need specialist data recovery services.  If your Server operating system is corrupt, the server will not boot, or your cannot access the server, all your attempts to bring it back to life could easily make the situation worse, and even cause total data loss.  At this stage, it’s important that all the hard drives in your server or storage device are immediately backed up to secure clones.  This is the first thing we do when we start a Server recovery or Apple RAID recovery; it’s an insurance policy against further drive failure, and more data loss.

Emergency Apple Server Recovery We can usually start recovering and extracting your data from within as one hour of making copies of your original drives.

When we take delivery of your Server or storage, we make copies of each single hard drive.  We then diagnose the failure and start the recovery.  We’ll keep you informed of progress throughout the procedure, so that you will always know what stage we’re at.   We’ll even start getting your most critical data to you before the recovery completes.  We’ll work to recover and restore your data, and get both you and your server back online.  Immediately – and with no fuss.

Never allow an inexperienced person attempt recovery or a RAID rebuild; this is the commonest cause of (preventable) permanent RAID data loss we encounter. We can practically guarantee a completely successful recovery from a Virgin RAID failure.

• Failed hard drive (or multiple disk failure)
• RAID controller failure
• RAID rebuild failure
• Metadata failure or corruption
• Corrupt RAID array
• Firmware update failure
• Power surge or power spike
• IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent data loss)
• Incorrect drive substituted for the RAID rebuild process
• RAID array re-initialisation / re-initialization