Yes, even better, snapraid sync will identify all files as restored and update the content file accordingly without having to modify the parity. You can verify this before sync by running snapraid Diff.
Another option would be to:
Make a separate backup of the content file and data files as planned.
Delete all crap files that you wanted to get rid of.
Snapraid sync
Reformat
SnapRaid fix (all the files will be identified as missing and restored)
Delete the extra backups when everything is confirmed OK
However I can't get my head around why you want to reformat... You still need to manually get rid of the unwanted crap.
Once the crap is gone, isn't the problem already solved?
If you suspect the disk to be bad, check disk tools are much better at discovering that than formating is. Formating usually just hides bad sectors and pretend the disk is smaller.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
You can use robocopy (/b flag) which can read files in backup mode, so it basically doesn't care about permission. Anyway, you may just want to do what is suggest in this post for each of your drives:
Hi,
I have 7 Drives on SnapRaid. Due to windows 8. 1 checkdsk errors there are many file s like found 000 etc. I want to reformat the disk.
Thanks
Another option would be to:
However I can't get my head around why you want to reformat... You still need to manually get rid of the unwanted crap.
Once the crap is gone, isn't the problem already solved?
If you suspect the disk to be bad, check disk tools are much better at discovering that than formating is. Formating usually just hides bad sectors and pretend the disk is smaller.
Hi,
Many thanks for an elaborate reply. I am finding remove crap files a little difficult with issues like permissions etc. but i will give it a try.
Thanks
You could try any of the following methods to get ownership of the files/folders:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2808-take-ownership-file-folder-drive-registry-key-windows-8-a.html
Or you could just add a context menu option so that you can right-click any file to take ownership of it:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/2814-take-ownership-add-context-menu-windows-8-a.html
Adding the context menu option seems by far to be the easiest option.
Don't forget to also uncheck the Read Only-box in properties before trying to delete.
Thank you for the wonderful tip
Regards
You can use robocopy (/b flag) which can read files in backup mode, so it basically doesn't care about permission. Anyway, you may just want to do what is suggest in this post for each of your drives:
http://superuser.com/questions/141019/permissionless-external-drive-with-ntfs
I would however check what corrupted the FS in the first place. Are SMART values OK for the drive? Any SATA/controller errors in Event Log?
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