>> Ummmm.... RAID is not a backup policy. Fine use hotswap and rsync or >> similar but you >> really shouldn't be relying on raid rebuilds for that. > These are backups to begin with. It is the archive disk for backuppc which > contains millions of hardlinked files for the de-duplication it uses. It would Ouch! I understand now. Backuppc does leave an unholy mess of the filesystem. Using RAID isn't a good solution but I guess is almost the only one that works.