Tuesday, December 27, 2005

RAID rebuilding

One of the hard drives in the main RAID server at work went down again last Friday. Ideally, with three drives in RAID 1 mode, the mirrored drive should have gone to the backup and tried to rebuild itself in the background.

But that's not what happened. Instead, I had to reboot, go into the RAID tools, and try and get it to rebuild from there.

Unfortunately, it seemed to have gotten stuck at 22% since Friday afternoon, and remained so all weekend. It was only through luck and perseverance that I was able to get it seemingly back on track, as it's now gone past 22%, and hopefully will be back to 100% by the time I get back to work tomorrow.

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