Hi there. I recently added a new parity disk to my snapraid config. I did 'snapraid -F sync' to compile the parity disk anew. The problem is that the server crashed during the -F sync. It got about 37% of the way there. I have now found the problem of the crash and have fixed it. Since snapraid saves progress during snyc, should i now do a normal sync and let it continue from there? Or should i start a new -F sync? :D
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I can't believe nobody answered you... I'll give it a shot, but this doesn't leave me much hope for an answer to the question I'm about to post.
Since this left you with a partial parity file, and reading the documentation, it states:
Having a partial parity file, is still beneficial, as it will still allow to recover data as long it uses the valid part.
If you have a partially damaged or totally lost parity file, you can run the "fix" command to recreate it, but ensure to use the -d option to fix only the interested parity and not the other disks.
snapraid fix -d PARITYNAME
Or you could just start over I imagine with another -F sync.
Have you tried anything yet?
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Hey :D Thanks for your reply ^^ And sorry for my late reply :/ I found out that my SATA controller was too puny for RAID usage when i had as many discs as i do now, so I decided to live it somewhat dangerous (Since my discs are so new) and wait till my new SATA controller arrived and did a full sync -F. Works flawlessly now :D
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Hi there. I recently added a new parity disk to my snapraid config. I did 'snapraid -F sync' to compile the parity disk anew. The problem is that the server crashed during the -F sync. It got about 37% of the way there. I have now found the problem of the crash and have fixed it. Since snapraid saves progress during snyc, should i now do a normal sync and let it continue from there? Or should i start a new -F sync? :D
I can't believe nobody answered you... I'll give it a shot, but this doesn't leave me much hope for an answer to the question I'm about to post.
Since this left you with a partial parity file, and reading the documentation, it states:
Having a partial parity file, is still beneficial, as it will still allow to recover data as long it uses the valid part.
If you have a partially damaged or totally lost parity file, you can run the "fix" command to recreate it, but ensure to use the -d option to fix only the interested parity and not the other disks.
snapraid fix -d PARITYNAME
Or you could just start over I imagine with another -F sync.
Have you tried anything yet?
Hey :D Thanks for your reply ^^ And sorry for my late reply :/ I found out that my SATA controller was too puny for RAID usage when i had as many discs as i do now, so I decided to live it somewhat dangerous (Since my discs are so new) and wait till my new SATA controller arrived and did a full sync -F. Works flawlessly now :D
You may want to consider using the "autosave" feature.