I don't run software raid so I'm not sure how it handles filesystem errors but I've used ddrescue to recover drives/arrays that were written off. It's fairly easy to use but can take quite a while depending on what the drive failure was. Simple bad sectors in a bad place it will usually chew through pretty quick, though. Take care, James On 12/18/2010 1:01 PM, Eric Martin wrote:
I have backups of some stuff but I have a program that isn't great about writing stuff properly so I wanted to see if I could get more. If I can't it's ok, the backups will suffice. I was just hoping for more :) The replacement is on it's way so this is a moot point pretty fast.
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:28 AM, James Gray <jamespgray@gmail.com <mailto:jamespgray@gmail.com>> wrote:
It appears there has been very little traffic as of late. Did you compare the messages you've received to the wlug archives? http://mail.wlug.org/pipermail/wlug/
As for your RAID issue you I don't have any advice as I have virtually no experience with it. I assume if you had backups you won't have bothered writing the group.
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Eric Martin <eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com <mailto:eric.joshua.martin@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I just realized that I haven't received anything from WLUG in over a month, including the announcement for this past meeting. Did anybody else have this problem or is it just me? > > Now, the main reason for my email. My mythbox / home file server runs linux soft-raid in RAID5 with 3 500GB disks. One disk went bad a while ago and the array never rebuilt itself. The other day, the second disk went bad. Am I hosed? I've been googling for 'rebuild bad linux software raid' but all I get is the rebuild command. Also, I don't see any tools that will move bad data to another spot on the disk. This is my first time using software raid so I'm in a bit over my head. > > thanks! > > -- > Eric Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug@mail.wlug.org <mailto:Wlug@mail.wlug.org> > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >
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