On 12/21/2011 09:50 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> 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...
I'm
JP Vossen wrote at about 21:50:29 -0500 on Wednesday, December 21, 2011:
> 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
>
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:50 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
>
> If I 'ddrescue' BAD --> GOOD, I'll worry about the integity of the
> BackupPC store. As I understand it, the incoming files are hashed and
> stored, but the store itself is never checked (true?). So when I do
> backups, if an incoming file ha
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
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
