Re: Need help increasing raid scan efficiency.

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

>>>>> "Reindl" == Reindl Harald <h.reindl@thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 03.06.25 um 03:05 schrieb David Niklas:
>> My PC suffered a rather nasty case of HW failure recently where the MB
>> would break the CPU and RAM. I ended up with different data on different
>> members of my RAID6 array.
>> 
>> I wanted to scan through the drives and take some checksums of various
>> files in an attempt to ascertain which drives took the most data
>> corruption damage, to try and find the date that the damage started
>> occurring (as it was unclear when exactly this began), and to try and
>> rescue some of the data off of the good pairs.

> forget it and restore a backup

Or if your data is static, use last years backup and look for
un-changed files and them compare the data inside them?  

but yes, using a better backup system is a good idea.  I'm using
'burp' for my home backups.  And big disks are cheap.  How much is
your data worth to you?