On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote:
The /bin directory appears to have been corrupted somehow. With Knoppix I could gain access to all of the other data but was unable to access /bin. I don't know why this happened and that worries me. I tested everything during reformatting and installation and found nothing wrong with the drive. I'm not too worried because I have a complete backup system. Of course I am having trouble with the restore. The data's all there on the backup disk but BackupPC only restored the directories and none of the data. I am trying to create a tar file and manually transfer the data across but am having similar problems. The documentation for manually manipulating BackupPC is obtuse to say the least.On 11/14/12 12:48, Gary Roach wrote:I got home from vacation, fired up the systems and one of the hard drives was trashed. Two days of recovery attempts didn't work so I reformatted and reinstalled the Debian Squeeze system.What do you mean by "trashed"?Have you run any hardware diagnostics on the "trashed" drive, such as those by the drive manufacturer? For example:http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ Are you trying to use the "trashed" drive? David
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