Evacuate a disk with bad sectors

[Christo]

Hey Everyone...

 

I need a bit of help. I have a system with 4x3Tb disks. No parity. Disk 3 is failing and have read errors. I would like to replace the disk with a new one but need the data. Is there a way to evacuate the disk out of the array with the system move the data to the other disks?

Or is this a manual process? How would a data move like this work ?

 

Thanx in advance

 

[JonathanM]

1 minute ago, Christo said:

Or is this a manual process? How would a data move like this work ?

Manual. Fastest would probably be command line, using MC or rsync. Source would be /mnt/disk3, destination /mnt/disk(X) where X is the disk number with enough space.

[Christo]

5 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

Manual. Fastest would probably be command line, using MC or rsync. Source would be /mnt/disk3, destination /mnt/disk(X) where X is the disk number with enough space.

Thank you for the feedback. Could I use something like Krusader to copy the content of disk 3 to other disks? I dont have a single disk with enough space but there is plenty over the other three disks

[JonathanM]

2 minutes ago, Christo said:

Thank you for the feedback. Could I use something like Krusader to copy the content of disk 3 to other disks? I dont have a single disk with enough space but there is plenty over the other three disks

Sure. It will probably be a fair bit slower though.

[Xaero]

Note that since you have read issues it's likely that there will be some corruption of the data. Anything that is corrupt may or may not be recoverable and you will need to replace from a backup.