• Mac OS X,  Xsan

    Rebuilding Arrays on Xserve RAIDs

    Sometimes a drive fails, or a RAID controller goes down on an array with a redundant drive (eg – RAID 5 or RAID 3) and the parity on a RAID must be rebuilt. This should happen as quickly as possible. However, it can result in data loss and in the event of a second drive failure on the array most of the data could be lost. The data may be safe, and should be backed up as quickly as possible. Once the data is backed up, then you should perform a rebuild of the parity for the array. To do so open RAID Admin from /Applications/Server and click on the…