Recovering/Restoring Boot Partition

[Don Levey]

On 2/24/2014 13:14, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> ..
> 
> Obviously one of the drives is no longer updated since the raid1 is
> not in effect so it's possible any utility will find the state
> ambiguous and won't know how to sync the disks, does a overwrite c or
> does c overwrite a? Consider that this is probably the expected
> degraded behavior of the array - after all it is still bootable and
> working. But I don' t know the prescribed method for restoring it
> from this condition. It might actually be to take a full backup of
> everything, blow it all away and recreate everything from scratch
> (raid, system installs, then restore from backups). The idea of raid1
> isn't as a backup substitute, it's to improve uptime and in that
> context it's doing that.
> 
> 
OK, it looks like I've got my course of action.  I'll pull whatever data
I need from this and wipe clean.  Perhaps, if I'm feeling like I can
afford it, I'll pick up a couple of new disks.  Thank you *very* much
for your help!
 -Don