RAID & HDD failure recovery

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Nov 17 08:19:29 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 18:32:34 -0600,
  Laurence Vanek <lvanek at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> Since its not if but when the next drive will fail, Im hoping I can 
> assemble a working plan. If not Im afraid I dont see the value in a 
> RAID1 setup.

You don't lose data all the way back to your last backup when you lose
a drive when using raid 1. You also can be back up in a degraded mode
very rapidly while you wait for your new drive to arrive.

You might have some luck if you pull the failed drive out of your system
and then use the rescue CD.




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