Hello Mr. Feyrer,

Background:
After two hard drive failures, I'm hoping to speed the recovery process next 
time by making backup images with g4u. I was unable to get v2.1 to send an 
image to my ftp server (Got two different ftp? error messages such as "cannot 
assign address..."? and google was no help) so I upgraded to  v2.2 b2 and 
plugged in a firewire drive as the target.

Copydisk:
My source Maxtor drive and target LaCie drive both claim "160GB", but I realize 
they could be very different nonetheless.

"copydisk wd0 sd0" seemed to run as expected up to 160GB, then finished with a 
"short" write error? message and declared 160xxxxxxxxx bytes had been copied.  
Apparently the target is actually (slightly) smaller than the source, but the 
source only has 6.1 GB of data on it, so I thought I'd probably lose only 
zeros.  Instead, my Suse 10.0 Konqueror reports that the external LaCie drive 
(still) contains 0 folders and 0 files. :-(

This is not the failure I'd expect if my clone destination were too small, so I 
am writing in case this is a bug in v2.2 beta 2.

I'm guessing this is either:
(1) a bug in v2.2 beta2
(2) an expected failure given the "short" write problem, because some essential 
bytes are stored at then end of the drive or something, or
(3) not an error, because copydisk is not a clone and the target contains bytes 
which g4u could still somehow copydisk back to reconstruct a lost drive.

Thanks for g4u
Jeff Bronez





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