Re: Recovery advice

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Kai Krakow posted on Sun, 04 Aug 2013 14:41:54 +0200 as excerpted:

> It is a RAID-1 so why bother with the faulty drive? Just wipe it, put it
> back in, then run a btrfs balance... There should be no data loss
> because all data is stored twice (two-way mirroring).

The caveat would be if it didn't start as btrfs raid1, and there's still 
some data (or possibly metadata if it was the single drive at one point 
or they're ssds, as btrfs defaults to metadata single in ssd mode) that 
hasn't been duped elsewhere.

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