From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Subject: Re: Help, big error, dd first GB of a raid:-/ Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:40:24 +0100 Message-ID: <47A07038.9040001@rabbit.us> References: <47A054D4.9030308@cgv.tugraz.at> <47A0696B.4030301@rabbit.us> <47A06F40.9010705@cgv.tugraz.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47A06F40.9010705@cgv.tugraz.at> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Lars Schimmer Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Lars Schimmer wrote: > I activate the backup right now - was OpenAFS with some RW volumes - > fairly easy to backup, but... > If it's hard to recover raid data, I recreate the raid and forget the > old data on it. It is not that hard to recover the raid itself, however the ext3 on top is most likely FUBAR (especially after 1GB was overwritten). Since like it seems the data is not that important to you, just roll back to a backup and move on.