From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vs2.lukas-pirl.de ([5.45.100.90]:43904 "EHLO pim.lukas-pirl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752697AbbKHC7P (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2015 21:59:15 -0500 Subject: Re: corrupted RAID1: unsuccessful recovery / help needed To: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>, hugo@carfax.org.uk, ahferroin7@gmail.com References: <562DC606.3070602@lukas-pirl.de> <5632930D.4040000@lukas-pirl.de> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Lukas Pirl Message-ID: <563EBA79.6040808@lukas-pirl.de> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 15:59:05 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Thanks for the answers Duncan, Hugo and Austin. I'll try a recovery as soon as I can and might (probably) come back to the list then. On 10/30/2015 11:58 PM, Duncan wrote: > Meanwhile, this does reinforce the point that snapshots don't > replace full backups, that being the reason I don't use them here, > since if the filesystem goes bad, it'll very likely take all the > snapshots with it. It is very true that snapshots do not replace full backups (in case of software or hardware failures). However, they are a very suited strategy to recover from unintentional deletions (most likely human, but could also be software failures) Best, Lukas -- +49 174 940 74 71 +64 21 150 86 86 GPG: http://lukas-pirl.de/media/attachments/lukas_pirl.pub