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RAID 6 recovery scan seems to hang at 99%

Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:41 pm
by SPYDER
I am trying to perform recovery of a 10.7 TB RAID 6 volume from a QNAP file server in another Windows 7 machine. I have built the virtual RAID and the scan seemed to be doing just fine and was chugging along for about 1d18h when I first noticed the "time remaining" kept getting longer, but it was consistently counting down. It got to the last block, 99% complete and a minute remaining and then did something weird - it went to 30% complete and like 8 days remaining...but it seemed to chug pretty quickly (w/in 10 minutes) back to 99%, but it's been pretty much stuck at 4 minutes and some seconds remaining for the last 8+ hours. Any thoughts?

I picked RAID6 / Reed-Solomon, but it was a SWAG (I know it's a RAID 6 volume, but not sure which schema they use)

I am using R-Studio 7.6.156433 on a Windows 7 Dual Xeon machine w/ 4GB of memory and a 3ware 9550SX-8 controller.

NOTE: I never saw Partition 1 show up under the virtual RAID in the drive pain as described/shown in step 3 from http://www.r-tt.com/Articles/RAID_Recov ... ndex.shtml

Re: RAID 6 recovery scan seems to hang at 99%

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:01 am
by Alt
Actually, you may stop the scan. It may stop for a some time, and I advise you to save the scan info immediately after stop. 99% is more than enough to find out the data on the disk.
But looks like that something wrong with the RAID parameters.

Re: RAID 6 recovery scan seems to hang at 99%

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:45 pm
by Corsari
Hello SPYDER

have you solved the issue?

Cor

Re: RAID 6 recovery scan seems to hang at 99%

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 5:17 pm
by SPYDER
After about 18 hours at 99% it completed successfully. I think the issue could be do to low (4GB) of RAM on the system. I have ordered more because I'm having issues loading the scan data now...

Re: RAID 6 recovery scan seems to hang at 99%

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 5:33 pm
by Corsari
Have you cloned the single original drives?

Read: have you set on the security side your valuable data?

One RAID 6 fails because 3 (not 2) drives are in trouble and you are stressing them so much.

Please find my others posts with best practices on this forum before to proceed.