I work for a pacs company, for those of you who dont know, pacs is picture archiving for medical devices (modalities) Interesting mix between medical and technology.
Last month middle of the night the primary server at a large hospital crashed hard. Near as we could tell AT LEAST the raid card, idrac, and possibly mother board and a hard drive or some combo of them bit the dust. This server is 3 months out of dell warranty. So replacement/on site service is out of the question. The site already has a new replacement server, and is running on their back up for now.
When the server went down the site lost hundreds of studies (sets of images created by CTs, MRIs, Xrays etc.) because some dip**** stopped the archiving service. (this is a windows server....ugh I know!! who runs a hospital server on windows!?!)
Long story short, they are sending me the 6 hard drives from the dead server, my company wants me to get the data off of them.
I've done this before with raid 0 and failed hardware before. I know its possible with gparted and DD. But this was 6+ years ago....
Any idea where I can start?
The first problem is that the emergency IT guy pulled ALL OF THE DRIVES OUT and got them all mixed up. So I do not know which is 0, 1, 2 etc.
on the plus side I have an exact replica of the server that went bad though.
This is how fun this is going to be, if the data is lost. The hospital gets sued by patients and in turn my company gets sued by the hospital because we are contracted to store this stuff for between 5 years and 20 years after the death of the patients.
to make it more fun, surgeries are digital now. if you have a brain bleed the surgeon watches a live feed from a mobile MRI/ECHO/CT/Whatever and compares it to past images stored in Pacs. That surgery (there are dozens) will be cancelled if those images are gone.
and you all thought hospital trips were perfect =) Let me let you in on a little secret. When you are on the operating table, sometimes a doctor stick his finger in you body to hold a bleed back while his assistant calls the pacs support to find out how to look something up in pacs, or change a view. You may be sleeping soundly, but half a dozen other people are freaking the F out =) especially if there is a bug in the program that prevents them from seeing what they need to see.
Anyway thoughts? tips? (prayers...? =) )
Last month middle of the night the primary server at a large hospital crashed hard. Near as we could tell AT LEAST the raid card, idrac, and possibly mother board and a hard drive or some combo of them bit the dust. This server is 3 months out of dell warranty. So replacement/on site service is out of the question. The site already has a new replacement server, and is running on their back up for now.
When the server went down the site lost hundreds of studies (sets of images created by CTs, MRIs, Xrays etc.) because some dip**** stopped the archiving service. (this is a windows server....ugh I know!! who runs a hospital server on windows!?!)
Long story short, they are sending me the 6 hard drives from the dead server, my company wants me to get the data off of them.
I've done this before with raid 0 and failed hardware before. I know its possible with gparted and DD. But this was 6+ years ago....Any idea where I can start?
The first problem is that the emergency IT guy pulled ALL OF THE DRIVES OUT and got them all mixed up. So I do not know which is 0, 1, 2 etc.
on the plus side I have an exact replica of the server that went bad though.
This is how fun this is going to be, if the data is lost. The hospital gets sued by patients and in turn my company gets sued by the hospital because we are contracted to store this stuff for between 5 years and 20 years after the death of the patients.
to make it more fun, surgeries are digital now. if you have a brain bleed the surgeon watches a live feed from a mobile MRI/ECHO/CT/Whatever and compares it to past images stored in Pacs. That surgery (there are dozens) will be cancelled if those images are gone.
and you all thought hospital trips were perfect =) Let me let you in on a little secret. When you are on the operating table, sometimes a doctor stick his finger in you body to hold a bleed back while his assistant calls the pacs support to find out how to look something up in pacs, or change a view. You may be sleeping soundly, but half a dozen other people are freaking the F out =) especially if there is a bug in the program that prevents them from seeing what they need to see.
Anyway thoughts? tips? (prayers...? =) )
