> On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 07:09:40PM -0400, james harvey wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Chris McFaul <mcfaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, if anyone is able to help with a rather large (34TB of data on it) >> BTRFS RAID 6 I would be very grateful (pastebins below) - at this >> point I am only interested in recovery since I am obviously switching >> to RAID 1 once/if I get my data back. >> >> Many thanks in advance >> >> Chris >> > Depending on how important the data is, wanted to throw out the most > prudent first step is to get another set of drives equal to or bigger > than the ones of the bad volume, and image them using dd one by one as > block devices. That gives you an undo button if recovery attempts go > wrong. Always the best first step in data recovery, if there's not a > hardware failure involved. > > Depending on the value of the data, it might not be practical as > you're looking at an expensive set of new drives. Just wanted to > throw that out there, in case. > Has anyone ever rented a server with massive storage for this? From what I understand it's possible to rent them short-term... How much did it cost? The reason I ask is I imagine it would be cheaper than buying a second set of disks for a huge array. Cheers, Nicholas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
