Recovery MDADM array from .img files of entire HDDs?
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Long story short, I have 6 6TB img files that are dd copies of entire HDDs, not partitions, that used to be in a MDADM array. The system they were running on suffered some hardware issue with motherboard power and would only stay on for about 20-30 minutes before powering off. At some point the array was no longer assembling.
I do have the physical HDDs but no real way to get them spinning right now (no server to put them into locally). The img files are on another server sitting on a functional array (the replacement machine).
Is there a way to mount these img files, and then rebuild the old array out of them, to access any data inside of it - just to verify it's all recovered/moved before we delete/dispose of them?
I do have the physical HDDs but no real way to get them spinning right now (no server to put them into locally). The img files are on another server sitting on a functional array (the replacement machine).
Is there a way to mount these img files, and then rebuild the old array out of them, to access any data inside of it - just to verify it's all recovered/moved before we delete/dispose of them?