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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html