On 8/5/16 9:43 AM, Tim Waters wrote: > It's software RAID1 I think, two drives each with their own copy of > the data. It's a common Hetzner setup. > > We did have some email help from a friendly admin who had a similar > issue a while back - I imagine that this kind of server admin > knowledge is hard to find and we've not progressed any more past this > help though. I have some time early next week to follow through the > steps and see what happens in case we don't get any more help. > > normally if a disk fails in a truly redundant RAID setup (hint, RAID 0 is not actually redundant), you replace with a similar disk and rebuild, which in RAID 1 is simply copying the data from the good (old) drive to the good (new) drive. i've never done the procedure for Linux software raid, i've only done this stuff with a couple of different commercial hardware RAID controllers, where the rebuild is frequently automagic.
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