Data repair scenarios and demos

Purpose

This page discusses scenarios related to repair of SBX containers. Not all scenarios are designed to be realistic, they are designed to illustrate various techniques for you to pick and apply for your specific scenario.

Basic repair

Demo

Only want to see if it's repairable

Demo

This is a good way to quickly assess data damage. As dry run is a read only operation, it's faster than an actual repair.

To ask blkar to only check if the container is fixable, you can add the --dry-run flag to the command.

blkar repair --dry-run container.sbx

The repairs will then only be done in memory, and the statistics are reported as usual, but nothing will be written back to the container.