eric AT janasnyder DOT com wrote:
> I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup.
> Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check
> and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a
> nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files.
> 
> To be fair I also allowed the Windows SP3 install in the same 48 hour
> window between no problems and problems. I also allowed a Java upgrade. I
> know, I know, what was I thinking!!!!!
> 
> Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive
> going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended
> problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other
> problems to report?
> 
I think the issue is that you had bad clusters, and one of the things
you installed happened to land on some of those bad clusters.  The bad
clusters probably went unnoticed until you tried to actually use them.

I've used rsyncd on a couple XP Pro machines with no problems.

-Rob
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