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Date:      Thu, 9 Dec 2004 07:06:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      orville weyrich <weyrich_comp@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Has anybody EVER successfully recovered VINUM?
Message-ID:  <20041209150635.10453.qmail@web50704.mail.yahoo.com>

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--- Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> wrote:
> I once had a problem with *invalid* vinum drive
> which was solved 
> following this advice from Greg Lehey:
> 
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?V29425BF9

So the procedure that worked for you was???

resetconfig
create original.config.file

I have seen alusions to this procedure, and was
planning to try it as a last resort (last because of
the dire warnings that are associated with
resetconfig).  Nowhere however have I seen the above
two lines explicitly juxtaposed, so I have been
reluctant to try it.

Before I try the above, I had an idea last night that
I want to try: I will buy a large, cheap IDE drive
(big enough to hold an entire plex) and ADD it to my
configuration (with all subdisks on the IDE drive). 
At this point, I expect to be able to sync all
subdisks of the IDE plex against one or the other of
the existing plexi to obtain a completely functional
plex, at which point my RAID should come alive for me
to back it up.

Does this plan seem workable?



		
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