> If your old venti is intact, I don't see the need to copy it (or is it > on the drive with the damaged fossil and you don't trust the drive?).
If your venti disk is similar to the failed disk and of same vintage, it is also likely to fail and should be replaced before it actually does. Similarly replace all disks in a RAID if one of the disks dies (and the death was not in the first few months of its life).
