hi ya On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, R Ransbottom wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:47:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > if the disk is dying ... doing a full disk backup will probably > > kill it completely just as easily as it could keep going a few more > > reads/write > > > mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 > > tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) > > sync ; umount /mnt/hdc1 > > If stressing the disk during the backup is a concern it would be > better to: umount the drives partitions, swapoff any swap space on > the disk, dd the disk (or its partitions one by one) onto other media. > By ignoring the filesystems on the failing drive you excerise the drive > less. yup.. good point ... - get knoppix or other stand alone media or a pre-installed clean deb install and than copy your data from the failing disk to the new one - leave the dying disk alone ... if want its data to stay intact as long as possible - or simply fix the original source of the problem ( bad cables, bad power supply, bad patches, bad kernel, bad ( section of disk, bad memory that makes disks look bad, etc .... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]