Recent content by Watchdogs1499

So keeping the server up isn't critical. We're just a research lab and the server we have hosts a bunch of PhD students data. Considering that the backup we have is a month old. We'd prefer trying to get our current volume fixed. How long it takes, doesn't matter too much. As far as I can say...

I do have a backup of all our data. But wiping and starting over is my last resort!

Just tried booting off a CentOS USB today and went into troubleshoot mode. The auto-repair couldn't detect a Linux partition and went into the troubleshooting shell. Though I could see that the RAID volume exists and can be seen. Just that it is not mounted nor is booting from it. When I try...

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive of the same size (4TB) and powered on the...