Retrodata RAID Recovery

If you’re running a server or storage with the XFS file system and it has failed, or you have a failed XFS RAID storage device, we have considerable skills, facilities and tools at our disposal to ensure that your data or your system will be recovered quickly and efficiently. As leading XFS RAID recovery specialists, we’re able to rebuild failed RAID arrays, recover a failed RAID rebuild, corrupt volumes, resizing failures and failed hard disks. We work with and recover data from all known operating systems, including Linux, UNIX, IRIX and all unsupported, legacy operating systems.

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If you have been attempting recovery by repeatedly rebooting the server, or tried various RAID rebuilds and swapping out drives, bear in mind that the main cause we see (by a long margin) of totally destroyed RAID data is caused by exactly this. You probably need expert XFS data recovery assistance, because the more you try recovery yourself, the greater the risk of further damage, or even total data loss. If you contact us, we’ll be able to work out how best to restore the failed system, and recover your data. Quickly.

Emergency XFS RAID Data Recovery We can often calculate the RAID parameters and rebuild your RAID within one hour of making secure clones of your original disks. Our RAID recovery success rate is probably unrivalled.If no recovery has been attempted, see this page.

When we receive your system or RAID disks, the first thing we’ll do is make secure copies of each individual drive. This is our insurance policy against further data loss, or further drive failures. Then the recovery procedure will start. If you have data that is critical and urgent, we will concentrate on that first, and start returning it to you before the recovery has completed. We’ll keep you informed of our progress throughout. Our RAID recovery engineers lead the industry; if your data is important, or urgent, we’re a valuable resource to get you and your data running again.

Under no circumstances should you ever allow an unqualified person attempt a RAID rebuild; the commonest scenario of total, permanent data loss we see with RAID storage devices is caused by the IT Admin or user trying to rebuild or recover the array following a failure. We can practically guarantee a completely successful recovery from a Virgin RAID failure.

XFS RAID failures:

• IT Admin or user error (the leading cause of permanent data loss)
• Hard drive failure – or multiple drive failure
• RAID controller failure
• RAID rebuild failure
• Volume will not mount
• Firmware update failure or firmware corruption
• Superblock corrupt
• Allocation group is corrupt or damaged
• inode allocation group is corrupt or damaged
• Power surge or power spike
• Incorrect drive substituted for the RAID rebuild process
• RAID array reinitialised / reinitialized