Hi again Wol and more :) Now I have succeeded, I hope. This has taken some time, and the disk that was broken I had to make different attempts with ddrescue. I have only copied 3 of the 4 disks, not the one who got the wrong three days before. Because I assumed it contained old data. Or am I think wrong, Is it better to add it to? Otherwise, I guess I need to start the raid, or something. Do I need a --forece maybe. I just don't want to do anything wrong after all this :) Debian 10 -- mdadm - v4.1 - 2018-10-01 # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : inactive sda1[2](S) sdb1[0](S) sdb2[1](S) 8761499679 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 1.2 Raid Level : raid0 Total Devices : 3 Persistence : Superblock is persistent State : inactive Working Devices : 3 Name : ttserv:0 UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Events : 2719 Number Major Minor RaidDevice - 8 1 - /dev/sda1 - 8 18 - /dev/sdb2 - 8 17 - /dev/sdb1 # mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 5840999424 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=20538368 sectors State : active Device UUID : 23079ae3:c67969c2:13299e27:8ca3cf7f Update Time : Sun Jan 12 00:11:05 2020 Checksum : ed375eb5 - correct Events : 2719 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 2 Array State : AAA. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) # mdadm --examine /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 5840999424 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=19520512 sectors State : clean Device UUID : f474ad64:6bb236d3:9f69f55c:eb9b8c27 Update Time : Tue Jan 14 22:49:49 2020 Checksum : 5c312015 - correct Events : 2864 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) # mdadm --examine /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x0 Array UUID : cb5bfe7a:3806324c:3c1e7030:e6267102 Name : ttserv:0 Creation Time : Tue Oct 9 23:30:23 2012 Raid Level : raid10 Raid Devices : 4 Avail Dev Size : 5840999786 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Array Size : 5840999424 (5570.41 GiB 5981.18 GB) Used Dev Size : 5840999424 (2785.21 GiB 2990.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors Unused Space : before=1968 sectors, after=19519631 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 1a67153d:8d15019a:349926d5:e22dd321 Update Time : Tue Jan 14 22:49:49 2020 Checksum : 6ddb36ea - correct Events : 2864 Layout : near=2 Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 1 Array State : AA.. ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing) Cheers Rickard Den tors 16 jan. 2020 kl 11:41 skrev Rickard Svensson <myhex2020@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, thanks again :) > > The server is shut down, will copy the two broken disks. > I think (and hope) there has been a small amount of writing since the > problems occurred. > > Unexpected problem with the names of ddrescue, but the apt-get package > in Debian called gddrescue, the program is called ddrescue. > I became uncertain because you mention that it works like dd, but it > doesn't use if=foo of=bar like regular dd? > Anyway the program ddrescue --help refers to the homepage > http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html which I assume is > right one..? > And there are a lot of options, any tips on some special ones I should use? > > I also wonder if it is right to let mdadm try to recover from all four > disks, the first one to stop working where three days before I > discovered it. > Isn't it better to just use three disks, the two disks that are ok, > and the last disk that got too many write errors the night before I > discovered everything? > > Otherwise, you have confirmed/clarified that everything seems to work > the way I hoped. > And I will read up on all the news in mdadm, and dm-integrity sounds > interesting. Thanks! > > Cheers Rickard