Hello, 

last thing before going to sleep, i attempted to boot up an old server from 2009. It worked, but with Unraid, i could not get sharing the existing disks to work. 

We are talking about 2 RAID5 from a 3Ware 9690SA-8i and some internal SATA disks. I would like to make a backup of all that content because i am going to rip everything apart and throw it away or in the basement.  

All drives are detected, it seems to have loaded the 3Ware drivers. The problem seems to be the filesystems. If i remember correctly, i have used LVM2 extensively and none of the disks mount (albeit the RAID arrays bring a different error message than the single disks; don't know if this is because they lack any GUID partition table and only have MBR). Anyway, they should contain Linux-supported filesystems as a Debian 11 or so was running.

 

Is there a guide to get such drives working or am i better off just trying to run Clonezilla (I'd prefer backing up the files as opposed to the partitions as this would mean another step of complexity for future recovery of some files, should i detect i need it)?

 

Going into the shell, i see that all the LVM2 VGs are available. I guess i can look to mount them manually somewhere, all i need is a way to share a user-specified directory.

Edited November 26, 20241 yr by unraidinterested

...i have used the shell to create a mountpoint, mounted all the filesystems and am now tarring to a locally connected backup drive. So the urgent need for the above is gone while at the same time giving the best performance rather than Gigabit Ethernet.