Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC recovery from unreliable disk

2011-12-21 Thread hansbkk
I know this doesn't help for now, but next time make sure your storage platform doesn't depend on hardware reliability - of which there is no such thing, long term. On the low end I recommend LVM over RAID1 for small, RAID6 for bigger systems, obviously high-end environments have their SANs. Just

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC recovery from unreliable disk

2011-12-21 Thread JP Vossen
I'm running Debian Squeeze stock backuppc-3.1.0-9 on a server and I'm getting kernel messages [1] and SMART errors [2] about the WD 2TB SATA disk. Fine, I RMA'd it and have the new one... Now what? I know I can either 'dd' or start fresh. But... If I start fresh, I know everything will be wo