We have a Dell PowerEdge R740xd server with PERC H730P Mini RAID controller. It has 2x 1.28 Tb SAS hard drives, 1x 12tb SAS, and 6x 12 Tb SATA hard drives installed.
RAID1 was assembled from 2x 1.28 Tb SAS drives, a RAID1+ 1 SAS 12tb hot spare was assembled (it had OS Win Serv on it). RAID6 (data archive) was assembled from 6x 12 Tb SATA hard drives.
We've got a task to add another RAID5 array to store information on 3x 14 Tb SATA hard drives. When creating RAID5 using Dell BIOS → Configuration Management → Create Virtual Disk, we made a fatal error, checked the "Select all available disks" option to create RAID5, and all the listed disks turned out to be available. Accordingly, after a new RAID5 array was created, there was only one RAID5 in the Virtual Disk Management menu, RAID1 and RAID6 disappeared. Moreover, all the SAS hard drives in RAID5 are not turned on, they are in Ready mode. The RAID5 array was quickly initialized.
Realizing my mistake, I turned off the server. I took out 3 SATA 14 Tb hard drives so that full automatic initialization (Background Initialize) would not take place (I thought that this option was not excluded.)
Now the new RAID 6 is disassembled accordingly on the server. Please advise me.
Is there a way to restore RAID1 from SAS disks in this state, while preserving the information? If you rebuild it without performing initialization, for example?
Is there a way to restore RAID6 to the state it was in with data retention? For example, by executing Virtual Disk Management → Deleting virtual disks, and then recreate the RAID6 array with only the original disks (without initialization), or restore it using the Importing or clearing foreign configurations menu? Perhaps dell has tools to roll back such actions? for example?
Is it possible to recover any information from a reassembled RAID6, for example, using utilities, if the previous file structure is not restored after the build?