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                        <title>RE: Clone Single Disk from Array?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/clone-single-disk-from-array/#post-23833</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 16:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Its possible, but requires some terminal expertise and appropriate risk.
Lets assume you are backed up.
remove all drives, but the failing and new disk.
restart
Identify their disk#s (di...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its possible, but requires some terminal expertise and appropriate risk.</p>
<p>Lets assume you are backed up.</p>
<p>remove all drives, but the failing and new disk.</p>
<p>restart</p>
<p>Identify their disk#s (diskutil list, or using SoftRAID disk tiles.)</p>
<p>You have to be very very careful here:</p>
<p>lets say the old disk is disk2 and the new is disk3</p>
<p>You can use the dd command in terminal to clone the old to new, using a command like this:<br />sudo dd bs=1m conv=sync,noerror if=/dev/rdisk2 of=/dev/rdisk3</p>
<p>sudo gives admin capability<br />dd is the command<br />bs= specifies the block size to be transferred, 1mb will go faster than the default 512 byte transfer<br />conv= means if an unreadable block is encountered, it will fill the remaining data with zeros, so the two disks remain in sync. with 1MB block sizes, this means a minimum of 1MB would be corrupted on a bad source, with each bad section. You can use a smaller size, but it takes much longer, and it does not seem your disk is that bad off.<br />if= is the path to the input (old) disk<br />of= is the path to the output (new) disk</p>
<p> </p>
<p>If you do it backwards, all data will be lost, so backup first.</p>
<p>there is no feedback, but you can guesstimate the time by size of the disk divided by the throughput (on Thunderbolt should be 200-225MB/s)</p>
<p>When you get a command prompt, Immediately remove the old disk and restart. Both disks will have the same SoftRAID Identifier, which can confuse the IO registry. this is very important!</p>
<p>put the rest of the disks in and it should be good.</p>
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                        <title>Clone Single Disk from Array?</title>
                        <link>https://forums.softraid.com/softraid-features/clone-single-disk-from-array/#post-23830</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 23:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
                        <description><![CDATA[Is it possible to clone a single disk to a new drive? I have four 8TB drives in RAID 0 (yes it&#039;s backed up) and one drive is throwing errors but still works. I&#039;d love to clone that single dr...]]></description>
                        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it possible to clone a single disk to a new drive? I have four 8TB drives in RAID 0 (yes it's backed up) and one drive is throwing errors but still works. I'd love to clone that single drive to a new drive rather than spend the time cloning 32TB. Is this possible?</p>]]></content:encoded>
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