Re: Copy entire /usr
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:15:04AM +0200, Raven wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am in a sticky situation. I run remotely a server and one of the disks
> is starting to fail.
> Every couple days (or more, depends on the www traffic level) scsi drive
> sdc fails (with "rejecting I/O to device bla bla bla"). This a BIG
> problem because my /usr resides on sdc1, and everytime it happens I have
> to send somebody to kill the server and restart it.
>
> I figured, since I do not have physical access to the server, that the
> best choice would be copying the whole /usr to another drive and (hoping
> there are no problems while copying) change the required stuff in fstab.
>
> Before starting blindly cp'ing files, I would like to hear your advice
> on the process and if I have any chance of succeeding (or if you have
> another method that would work better)
BTW: to make things a bit less sticky (maybe after the copy): install
debsums. Its data is stored under /var .
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