Wrong disk used in software raid. Can I recover data?
Posted: 10 Oct 2017, 08:23
Instead of using my two new drives for creating a software raid 1 (using mdadm), I have used one new and one my existing disk that has some important files on it. I have created the array everything is ok.
Once I tried to copy my data to new raid array, I realized that I added wrong disk to raid 1 array. (I'm am complete idiot, I admit)
Is it possible to recover data from my data disk (that is part of raid 1 mdadm array) using testdisk or photorec? I have tried testdisk wihout success and running photorec at the moment.
My main question is when I create the raid 1 array, it resyncs the drives. Is this process overwrites all the data present on the disk?
Is there any way to restore this data?
Thank you for your help.
Once I tried to copy my data to new raid array, I realized that I added wrong disk to raid 1 array. (I'm am complete idiot, I admit)
Is it possible to recover data from my data disk (that is part of raid 1 mdadm array) using testdisk or photorec? I have tried testdisk wihout success and running photorec at the moment.
My main question is when I create the raid 1 array, it resyncs the drives. Is this process overwrites all the data present on the disk?
Is there any way to restore this data?
Thank you for your help.