Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility
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]
Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 05:58, Keith Goettert wrote: The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them painlessly. For regular backup I use dar and if I need to copy a whole disk I use mirrordir -- ZekeVarg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility
hi ya On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Keith Goettert wrote: The boot drive of one of my systems is going. I would like to make a copy to CD or a Disk to Disk copy. It has many partitions and I would like to preserve them seperately or at least be able to recreate them painlessly. too late 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 disks dies for multiple reasons ... pick the right one for why your disk is dying .. and prevent it next time if you want to burn a cdrom ... you need more disk space on a clean disk if you want to do a disk to disk copy .. presumably you already have a good disk ...and you have excluded bad cables, bad memory, bad motherboard, etc as possible reasons for why the disks appear to be bad ?? assuming everything is still functional assuming your new disk ( hdc ) is on a new cable mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 tar cvf - /dev/hda1 | ( cd /mnt/hdc1 ; tar xvfp - ) sync ; umount /mnt/hdc1 repeat for each partition if your disk is functional ... the above disk to disk will work if your disk is dying the aboce will copy parts of the disk and some files will be corrupt .. which ones is bad is the test === best bet ... -- restore your data from backups onto a new disk -- leave the current disk alone .. retire it as is ... c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hard Drive Going - Need a good backup utility
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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
