RAID Layout Description File

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(Available on Restorer Ultimate PRO and Restorer Ultimate PRO Network only)

Restorer Ultimate stores data on custom-created RAID layouts in the raidlayout.xml file by default, or any other xml file specified by the user. If a layout is stored in the raidlayout.xml file, it appears in presets.

File raidlayout.xml

Below is an example of the raidlayout.xml file defining the RAID5 layout described in Create Advanced RAID Layouts.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<RAID>

  <Table name="Example">

    <Row>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>1</Cell>

      <Cell>2</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>3</Cell>

      <Cell>4</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>5</Cell>

      <Cell>6</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>7</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>8</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>9</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>10</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>11</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

      <Cell>12</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>13</Cell>

      <Cell>14</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>15</Cell>

      <Cell>16</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

    </Row>

    <Row>

      <Cell>17</Cell>

      <Cell>18</Cell>

      <Cell>XorOfData</Cell>

    </Row>

  </Table>

</RAID>

 

Notes:

1.Offsets are in sectors
2.If the Offsets section is absent, Offsets are treated as zero.
3.The number of <Coll> sections in <Offsets> should be equal to the number of <Cell> in <Row>.