On 11/20 05:18 , eric AT janasnyder DOT com wrote:
  

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?
    

BackupPC puts substantial additional load on disks, because it forces them
to seek every file, and on a heavily fragmented filesystem this can add up
to a lot of head movement which would normally not take place. 

So a drive which might have been marginal before, might fail when you do the
backup of it. 

I've had this happen to me once or twice (once with disastrous consequences
when I found that the new external drive enclosure I was using for the backuppc
data pool was no good, so I lost the backup that caused the client disk to
fail, and then discovered that the LVM RAID I had been using to give me a
redundant client disk had stopped replicating a year before and not given me
any signs I recognized... fortunately it was only my own data, and not
someone else's that I lost).

So be aware that this can happen.

  

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