Re: Uh Oh....in deep trouble

I'm on board with the recapture train really.

Data recovery, especially of that much data, is going to be really really iffy. I've never used an XSan, so I don't know the setup, but assuming it's a hardware RAID there's also a lot of difficulty in recovery that way - a lot more complex than a single drive.

If you're especially unsure about the effectiveness of a recapture, I'd take the 'damaged' XSan offline immediately. Replace it with a new one, recapture as much as possible and then perhaps focus on a data recovery of anything you identify as vital and missing after the recapture.

And I would take the IT department off my Christmas card list after a thing like that.