Homelab Hero · No. 007

One incident. Three calls.

Boss Fight. Friday, 6:10 PM. A disk in your four-disk RAIDZ1 pool has died, the resilver is running — and a second disk has started throwing read errors partway through. Your last verified backup of the photo library finished three weeks ago, and family arrives tomorrow expecting the server up.

Your call:

A. Let the resilver run at full speed and hope the second disk holds until it finishes

B. Ease off the resilver, copy the irreplaceable datasets to an external drive first, then let the rebuild finish

C. Pull the erroring disk now and replace both disks at once to save time

100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 007 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.