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
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