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From: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>
Subject: Re: Is this RAID recoverable???
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:42:29 -0500
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Hi Paul,

[You top-posted again...]

Paul Richter <iamcomcy@gmail.com> wrote:

>So, I should DD back up the whole thing before trying to reconstruct.

The create operation with v2.6.9 isn't any more dangerous than the create operations already done.

>If the reconstruct is successful, then I build a new array and copy
>everything from the old to the new, right?

When/if the recreate succeeds, do a filesystem backup, recreate the array again, and restore.

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