@Smallserver Server are from hetzner too, have there some spare/backup server so thanks.
@biologist, thanks for your tipps. It was a fast server install and restore from a old one. so that was quick and dirty. Yes this is the third broken 3TB HDD by them ...
I think the reinstall is the best solution, but im a bit afraid of the long work ... With a few customer and so on .. no problem ... used imapsync too in the past
but here at over 120 customer ... ouman....
Just start, if it takes time, it will take time 
In all the years at Hetzner I never had a broken HDD. Maybe I shouldn't have said that .. nock nock nock.
Just start, if it takes time, it will take time
In all the years at Hetzner I never had a broken HDD. Maybe I shouldn't have said that .. nock nock nock.
The problem is just this one hdd-model... it's a mess!
The first hdd broke after one year (sdb). Fortunately, this one was replaced immediately as just one week later sda said goodbye. While sdb was replaced by a new hdd, sda got exchanged by a used one that had - at least as of smartctl-log - "a history". In other words: obvisously, this one was not 100% ok! Just three weeks later, it had to be replaced again - this time by a NEW Toshiba-drive. Works so far...
had this exactly the same ...
Is there any recommendation on whats the best way for backup and restore ? I did this serval times ago but with only a bunch of customers 
Hello ;
I've processed this way for a big server some time ago ( a server from @c0urier )
It's always a good idea to make those backups everyday. I use automysqlbackup for my databases. I don't have rsync running, but I am planning something with lftp for all else (my backup storage is a NAS, doesn't have ssh). I make backups manually every day to secondary storage. Last week however, something went wrong with that and my hdd filled up
Hi,
thanks @Nuxwin how long does it takes for you to do such work? How long does it took you for the @c0urier server and how big was it? I think thats a good Idea but with downtime...
My first idea was like: copy partitions to new HDD, format them and copy all files while online. after that shutdown and boot in recovery modus, mount all partitions and copy last files like /proc /tmp /dev /sys so now everything has to be on the new disk but here starts my problem, what I have to do, to boot from the new disk ... ? I think when this is done ... server boots up from new disk, everything is good ... Im at the point to reboot but ...missing link
@Nuxwin ... Other question. Would it be possible for you to do this transfer for me and how can i pay you to do this? I could do the first steps, rsync the directories and database to other Server, I think this will take 2-3 hours, the reinstall is no problem but the import of the backups ...
@smallserver: We copie all the customer backups one time per week to another server. its a small script i wrote to backup everything in /var/www/virtual/*/backups