using ddrescure -f -vvvv -r 3 /dev/sda /dev/sdb it's rescued 0 B seems to be trying to copy 4142 MB but has not copied any thing So is there some setting I can try other than above that might extract something. Thanks for any help. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Eric Smith wrote: > >> I had a functional 4 drive Raid5 array. I lost one drive called support >> to warranty it and in the time that it was coming to me a second drive died >> also. > > > Use ddrescue to try to get data out of the failed drives. If you have 2 out > of 4 drives that are totally dead and no data can be taken from them, then > you basically have 1/3 of your data completely gone, spread over the entire > filesystem. You won't be able to recover much more than sporadic file > contents... > > If indeed the drives are not totally dead and you can get most of the data > out using ddrescue, then there is more hope. Do this then, and post new > information to the list depending on how much data you were able to extract. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
