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GoinAllTheWay · 03-19-2010, 12:12 PM

K, hope I get this out right.

Here at work (family owned business) we have a fairly basic server running Server 03 and about 20 work stations. The server is setup in a RAID type configuration. I'm not the guy who built the server so I'm trying to understand what he built.

As far as I can tell, we have a small system drive (c) that contains the actual OS. If I'm not mistaken, we have a 2nd internal drive (D) (possibly just a partition of C )that mirrors to a removable drive that we hot swap at the end of each day. So basically all the files that we use each day are backed up to this mirror drive in real time. At 5, I shut down this removeable drive, pull in out and replace with an identical drive at which time it starts a rebuild.

So my question is this. If I took one of those removeable drives, pulled it out of its current enclosure and put it into regular HD enclosure and connected it to another computer using USB and fired it up, any reason why I wouldn't be able to access the files on it?

03-19-2010, 12:12 PM	#1
GoinAllTheWay Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Not sure Exp:	Question re: server backups K, hope I get this out right. Here at work (family owned business) we have a fairly basic server running Server 03 and about 20 work stations. The server is setup in a RAID type configuration. I'm not the guy who built the server so I'm trying to understand what he built. As far as I can tell, we have a small system drive (c) that contains the actual OS. If I'm not mistaken, we have a 2nd internal drive (D) (possibly just a partition of C )that mirrors to a removable drive that we hot swap at the end of each day. So basically all the files that we use each day are backed up to this mirror drive in real time. At 5, I shut down this removeable drive, pull in out and replace with an identical drive at which time it starts a rebuild. So my question is this. If I took one of those removeable drives, pulled it out of its current enclosure and put it into regular HD enclosure and connected it to another computer using USB and fired it up, any reason why I wouldn't be able to access the files on it?