[WBEL-users] steps to help recover data from a crashed system? (boot drive crashed, need to get data from data drive)

[Dale Lists]

Hello Scott,

Scott Silva wrote:

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>>>Is this a raid array? Or just 2 drives?
>>>It makes a difference on what you might recover, and how
>>>easy it will be (or difficult).
>>>      
>>>
>>Currently the setup is just 2 drives. The drive I believe
>>that is hosed is the boot drive, the second drive is the
>>/var volume which contains my websites and mail spools.
>>
>>So I am hoping I will be able to get the data from the /var
>>volume.
>>
>>Dale
>>    
>>
>You should be able to get to that data with the Knoppix disk. But you will
>need somewhere to put it if you are going to format the remaining drive.
>I wouldn't recommend raid 0 for your new install if you want any hope of
>recovery should one of the drives fail.
>  
>

I thought RAID 0 is simply mirroring - Raid  1 is striping - right? Why 
would mirroring be more difficult to recover data from?