On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:

some light googling revealed buffalo as a UFS partition over four drives. Has anyone recovered a software RAID 5 configuration? Can I dd to an iso, mount the iso's, mount the raid, extract the data, and move forward?

You might have a different super block on the disk from Buffalo. You might check your exact model (Is this a LinkStation) against the HowTo's from Buffalo?

Knoppix works really well for restoring disks (every systems admin needs a knoppix USB flash)

Page 218 dd_rescue (in case there are bad blocks):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15490322/Knoppix-Hacks-by-OReilly-Media

Buffalo's Wiki shows a procedure on how to restore data to a LinkStation using Knoppix:
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Upgrade_%28or_replace%29_the_existing_LinkStation_hard_drive

And:
http://buffalo.nas-central.org/wiki/Upgrade_%28or_replace%29_the_existing_LinkStation_hard_drive#Backup_your_entire_hard_drive.2C_partition_a_blank_drive_on_a_Knoppix_workstation

Full Knoppix Hacks (ripped to Scribd):
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15490322/Knoppix-Hacks-by-OReilly-Media

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Hi Eric