Hi Michael, >> If the errors indeed comes while reading the source - >> the tarball could be fine, but I would not trust the content. > >Yeah, but if /home is about to go bad and there are no good prior >backups, then it's perhaps the best shot available. > >One of the next steps would be unmounting /home for an fsck to see if >this is fixable. But that's already a bit risky, as the nature of the >problem makes it uncertain if it'll ever mount /home again.
Agreed. I didn’t say don’t backup... I just said not to trust the backup. Step #1 for me would be cmuImport and check the content, then fsck if needed. Regards, D. _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
