Recent content by Mark

Tim, I did not know you are planning an article on RAID Recovery. I have tried some RAID recovery tools on one of my JBOD disks. It was not a success. From what I remember it took more than 20 hours to analyse the disk. Of course files were found but they were not really usuable in my...

A wrong assumption! With JBOD, you're screwed when one of the disks fails. In that case, the whole JBOD filesystem is destroyed and you cannot simply read the other disk(s). It's the same as with a RAID array which get destroyed. The only thing to get your files back on the disks which are...

Great articles to backup from NAS to NAS. Tim, you have saved us hours and hours of work in figuring out how it all works. The only thing I am missing here is how we can make an exact copy of one NAS to another NAS. The Rsync process seems to require that we have to backup into a shared...