-----Original Message-----
> Be careful with smartctl if you use it for anything other than
> reading
> information from the drive. Heed the warnings in the 'man' page, and
> before you do anything like setting or changing drive characteristics
> search online for reports from people who've done similar things with
> your particular drive model. One wrong move could be serious. Maybe
> it won't be necessary. I've used it to stop drives from spinning
> down
> in problem cases but only when the timeouts interacted very badly
> with
> the Linux kernel timeouts for flushing sectors from RAM to disc.
> I've
> been prepared to take the risk of damaging drives, but only because
> my
> alternative would have been to put them in the recycling bin. :/
>
> Don't forget I'm still guessing. :)
>
> > I checked in the syslog and I can't see any other log files that it
> > might be using.
>
> You can spend hours trawling through logs, but mostly I'd search in
> /var/log/(daemon.log|debug|kern.log|messages|syslog) - not
> necessarily
> in that order.
>
> > How would I run something automatically before backup? Or do you
> > mean manually?
>
> I meant automatically. I was thinking of one of these:
>
> $Conf{DumpPreUserCmd}
> $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd}
> $Conf{DumpPreShareCmd}
> $Conf{DumpPostShareCmd}
> $Conf{RestorePreUserCmd}
> $Conf{RestorePostUserCmd}
> $Conf{ArchivePreUserCmd}
> $Conf{ArchivePostUserCmd}
>
> Check the documentation for "Optional commands to run before and
> after
> dumps and restores, and also before and after each share of a dump."
Warning registered re smartctl. Thanks for the references to the
config, which immediately draw attention to the fact that I have no
idea what the error is.
Looking through those logs for anything at the time of the modification
timestamp on the backuppc xferlog, I can see this one line which
appears about 25 mins after the backup fails:
Oct 17 16:13:48 localhost smartd[1302]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 1
Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
The target USB drive is /dev/sdb1.
But as I said, I scanned the drive and it didn't log any errors. Is
that useful info?
Thanks
Adam
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