[Solved] Not sure how to recover from Raid1 drive failure

howdy stitch.

Sorry to hear about your hardware failure. This forum post talks about replacing drives What is the process for replacing a bad drive?. TLDR

I believe you should be able to replace the drive in cli

btrfs replace [drive id] [new drive] /mnt2/pool-name

The data that is corrupted you should be able to run scrub and either replace the bad sectors from a snapshot or remove the bad files and replace from a cold storage.

Wiki says that when you place a third drive in raid 1 (mirror) you don’t increase the total striped volume of the pool you just add yet another spare of the data that is maintained across the array essentially giving you 2 failure before you lose everything.

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