Plenty of hits....but no clear fixes and as I said I'm not willing to 'try' things from google hits until someone with better insight can give me a view. Trying things is fine in many instances, but not with a 20+TB data set as I'm sure you can understand. On 3 March 2016 at 12:56, Wols Lists <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/03/16 11:37, Another Sillyname wrote: >> I'd even be happy to just bring the array up in readonly mode and >> transfer the data off, but it will NOT let me reassemble the array >> without the 'need data backup file to finish reshape, sorry' error and >> will not reassemble. > > Seeing as no-one else has joined in, search the list archives for that > error message, and you should get plenty of hits ... > > Cheers, > Wol -- 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