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Uh Oh….in deep trouble
Our IT department managed to reformat our XSan drives. Anyway to recover media back to normal. Quoted price from a file recovery service is $60,000…..not good. In deep poo poo. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.
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You can try a program called data rescue. No promises, but it’s worth a try. You will need a different drive to copy any files it finds on to though.
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Guessing that recapturing all of that will take too long, right? That would really be the only method I would trust. Recovery of Media via data recovery software is spotty most of the time.
Time to take that cost out of the IT budget.
Shane
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Yeah…it’s about 7 TB worth of media.
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Shane’s right. Data recovery firms don’t usually guarantee that they can recover anything, or that it will be useful after it’s recovered. But they still charge the fee.
If your media originated on tape, I’d just start digitizing.
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I’m on board with the recapture train really.
Data recovery, especially of that much data, is going to be really really iffy. I’ve never used an XSan, so I don’t know the setup, but assuming it’s a hardware RAID there’s also a lot of difficulty in recovery that way – a lot more complex than a single drive.
If you’re especially unsure about the effectiveness of a recapture, I’d take the ‘damaged’ XSan offline immediately. Replace it with a new one, recapture as much as possible and then perhaps focus on a data recovery of anything you identify as vital and missing after the recapture.
And I would take the IT department off my Christmas card list after a thing like that.
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I can confidently say, “You’re toast!”.
Don’t even think about “recovery”, go right to “Redigitize”.
Mark
PS. This is why we don’t let IT near our X-SAN! Our IT guys are smart, wonderful, and very talented… but they don’t understand squat about how video works. By the way, I couldn’t manage our “MS Exchange” server if my life depended on it, so I guess we’re even.
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[Mark Raudonis] “This is why we don’t let IT near our X-SAN! Our IT guys are smart, wonderful, and very talented… but they don’t understand squat about how video works.”
My prior experience with an IT “team” was that they looked at image data as simply “data” instead of “valuable history”. As a result a lot of that history was lost due to pure negligence.
I treat my own image data with a lot more reverence and keep backups of everything.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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