From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
To: Robert Schultz <rob@schultzfamily.ca>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 5 3-drive array failed 2 disks at once - can anything be saved?
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:35:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523A8D2F.1050900@turmel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523A619F.90302@schultzfamily.ca>
On 09/18/2013 10:29 PM, Robert Schultz wrote:
> That all worked beautifully. Right up until I left the BackupPC running
> against a RAID array with a bad disk.
>
> It failed again after about 30 hours. The symptoms are the same.
>
Ah, well. "Smart" can't catch everything. Do consider that you might
have some other hardware problem, though. Power supply, data cable, etc.
> I think I need to bring the array back up but leave that disk offline with:
>
> mdadm --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
>
> (sdd is the bad drive)
>
> Then follow the remainder of the steps to check.
Don't bother with another check run. It is only meaningfull if you have
all three drives.
> I have a new disk on the way. I would then add this new disk into the
> array and sync.
Yes.
> Does that sound correct?
Yes.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-19 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-13 14:55 RAID 5 3-drive array failed 2 disks at once - can anything be saved? Robert Schultz
2013-09-14 14:24 ` Phil Turmel
2013-09-15 20:42 ` Robert Schultz
2013-09-16 1:12 ` Phil Turmel
2013-09-19 2:29 ` Robert Schultz
2013-09-19 5:35 ` Phil Turmel [this message]
2013-09-19 17:38 ` Robert Schultz
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