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Ok, great that I know I can ignore mdadm.

So what am I doing wrong, or better still, what do I need to do to be able to mount and read the data on the disks?

What I've tried doesn't work and I don't know whether what I've done is incorrect or what I've tried is failing because of the read failures ...

I'm back but without much progress. I hade to make up a new rescue usb because no prodding, poking or begging would convince B2 to boot up again with the one that worked previously!

I've been trying to understand a little more about how logical volumes work in order to diagnose why your suggestions ...

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll spend some time this afternoon trying them out.

I do realise that RAID is not a backup, unfortunately I realised that my backup had gone south at the time I realised that B2 was having problems. Wondering whether RAID is even worth the hassle in future, when I ...

I hoped my question wouldn't be that challenging. Perhaps it's the detail I included in my post.

I know that it's probably frustrating to deal with someone whose knowledge is so limited but is there anyone that could suggest how I could go about investigating whether I have any possibility to ...

Hi,

I'm at my wits end and my lack of knowledge about this particular area is hampering my efforts. I've left my B2 unattended (and I've therefore forgotten how I administered it) almost exclusively since I bought it many years ago. It turns out the backup I'd been doing to an external disk had ...