Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair this sounds BAD. Probably very hard for anyone to offer useful advice except for the 'after the horse is bolted' type. Maybe the first step would be to STOP accessing all of the disks immediately and find another expert. Don't go for the brain slushie just yet. It sounds as though you are talking about all of your image files not just the catalog (a separate file)? A catalog can be replaced but of course it is your images you care about. It sounds like you have multiple issues going on. When one disk is mirrored it reflects what is on the other by definition so if one disk is corrupted the other will be a copy of that. So you get hardware redundancy but it doesn't necessarily help. For your RAID, is it possible that the controller is the problem? Just possible that the data is there or part of it. Maybe worthwhile talking to the WD support folks. Worth a try certainly. I've had responses and fixes from them on backup software on a WD book previously. I guess AFTER you resolve just where you are right now with what you have is the time to think about back up strategies. Good luck! Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman