Retrodata RAID Recovery

Although we have considerable experience of all file systems, our ability with Linux and its variants remains one of our most formidable RAID recovery skills. Due to the popularity of Linux amongst most NAS and many storage system manufacturers, we have performed Linux RAID recovery on myriad storage systems, from small RAID 0 NAS devices, to huge RAID arrays with nested RAID levels and even proprietary RAID configurations.

Linux Server crashed?
No problem.
We’ll sort it – PDQ.

If your Linux server has crashed, due to a failed disk, or a RAID rebuild has not worked or appears to be hanging; if you’ve tried repeatedly rebooting the server or run utility programs and all these have failed, you need specialist Linux RAID recovery assistance.

Any recovery attempts you perform on a failed or failing Linux RAID could have dire consequences on the integrity of the stored data and severely limit the chance of a successful data recovery. Rather let us help you. We’ll start the recovery process by making secure clones of all the hard drives. That’s our insurance policy against further damage or corruption. We’ll then diagnose the failure, and start the recovery. We’ll inform you throughout of all progress, and even start returning critical data during the process itself. We’ll work to getting your Linux box up as quickly as possible. Maybe even today.

Retrodata are able to perform Linux RAID recovery from any Linux File System, including Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, JFS, ReiserFS and btrfs. Similarly, we work with all variants of Linux, including Debian, Fedora Core (Red Hat), Gentoo, Knoppix, Linspire, Mandriva, Slackware, SuSE, Ubuntu, Xandros and all others.

Emergency Linux RAID Recovery We can often regenerate and rebuild your RAID and start recovering your data within the hour.

Typical Linux RAID failures include:

• Hard drive failure – or multiple drive failure
• RAID controller failure
• Kernel panic
• RAID rebuild failure
• RAID array reinitialisation / reinitialization
• Superblock corruption
• Inode corruption
• Root directory corruption
• Inappropriate use of the FSCK command
• Accidental format or volume deletion
• Hard drive developing bad sectors
• IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent data loss)

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Linux is a popular file system for NAS storage devices. Hence we are also able to successfully recover data from all NAS devices, from ASUS, Buffalo, Dell / EMC. Freecom, Iomega, LaCie through to QNAP, SGI and ZyXel.

We are able to rebuild Linux volumes and our Raid Recovery System frequently produces a full, healthy recovery of Linux RAID arrays where other companies have failed. As such, we receive work from other data recovery companies around the globe.