Retrodata RAID Recovery

If your UNIX-based storage array has failed, any recovery attempts you make could have dire consequences on the integrity of the stored data and severely limit the chance of a successful data recovery. If the server or attached storage device is already powered off then we advise you keep it so, and contact us for advice. If you have already tried a RAID rebuild and it has failed, or appears to be making no progress, please contact us.
It is critical that you do not allow an unqualified person attempt recovery or a RAID rebuild; this is one of the commonest causes of data damage and permanent, irreversible loss of otherwise perfectly healthy data that we encounter.

UNIX and its many variants have been around for decades. There are numerous UNIX-based operating systems, including:

• SunOS/ Solaris
• OpenSolaris
• FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD
• System V (initially System III) and later HP-UX
• Tru64 UNIX (AdvFS file system)
• TruCluster Server
• Advanced Server for UNIX (ASU)
• IBM AIX
• SGI IRIX
• Sun xVM Virtualization
• Idris (legacy)
• UnixWare
• A/UX (Apple variant)

Below are just some of the UNIX-related File Systems we support:

• UFS, FFS and LFS
• UFS2
• VxFS (Veritas File System)
• Veritas ClusterFS
• HPFS (High Performance File System)

Retrodata are able to recover data from any UNIX-based File System, and from any operating system, regardless of the storage device, RAID level, type of server, and from practically any method of failure, including the following:

• Superblock damage
• Block Group Descriptor damage
• OLT (Object Location Table) corruption or damage
• VTOC (Volume table of contents) corruption or damage
• Inode corruption
• Damaged Partition information (including deleted, corrupt, repartitioned and missing partitions)
• Damage caused to data structures by FSCK
• Hard drive failure
• RAID rebuild failure
• Server failure

UNIX recovery: Supported UNIX Servers
AlphaServer
AlphaStation
Fujitsu-Siemens Sparc64
HP Integrity Servers and Blades
HP StorageWorks
HP Aplha Systems
HP-UX Servers
IBM Power Systems
IBM BladeCenter
Sun Solaris
Sun Enterprise
Sun SPARC
Sun UltraSPARC
UNIX RAID data recovery