Re: RAID 5 3-drive array failed 2 disks at once - can anything be saved?

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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
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