On 12/21/2011 09:50 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> I'm running Debian Squeeze stock backuppc-3.1.0-9 on a server and I'm
> getting kernel messages [1] and SMART errors [2] about the WD 2TB SATA
> disk. Fine, I RMA'd it and have the new one... Now what? I know I can
> either 'dd' or start fresh. But...
I'm having some problem with getting list messages to my account, though
oddly password reset messages work fine and nothing jumps out at me from
my mail server log. Yes, I checked my spam folder too. I dunno... So
anyway, I read the replies on the ML archive site.
So, thanks to everyone who responded! For the record, while it sounds
like it would have been OK to use the suspect pool, I ended up doing this:
1) Move drives into a temp server and boot Ubuntu 10.10 LiveUSB
2) apt-get install gddrescue
3) time ddrescue --force -d /dev/sda /dev/sdb /tmp/ddrescue.log
Took about 17 hours to copy 2TB via local SATA
4) Rename the old BackupPC dir (for the history)
5) Create a new BackupPC dir and copy over host configs
It turned out that my BackupPC pool was smaller than I expected and I
had more free disk space than I thought, so starting fresh while keeping
the ability to restore old files by changing symlinks around if I have
to seems ideal.
As for using fault-tolerant hardware/RAID, etc, in this case that's not
an option. This is my personal backup server, running on the previous
generation http://www.system76.com/desktops/model/meerkat, and it fits
only a single 3.5" drive. I didn't use LVM since the OS is on a USB
drive and the hard drive in question is just one big /data/ partition.
Thanks again,
JP
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