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Gary Roach
Nov 14, 2012, 4:10:01 PM11/14/12
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Hi all
I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated.
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. I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory
strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work for me.
The instructions for creating a tar file at the command line are beyond my ken. It might work if you could get BackupPC_tarCreate to actually run, find the proper security setup for it and figure out where to put the tar file. I gave up.
Thanks in advance
Gary R
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I sent a copy of this to the backuppc mailing list but response is a bit slow. So if someone has some experience with backuppc and can help, it will be sincerely appreciated.
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. I re-established the rsyncd connection to the backup system and started a restore from the GUI. The next morning I found all of the proper directory structure installed but no data in the directories. I then tried to create a tar file. The file created held only the directory
strucure. The data is all there in a full backup of the system. I can even open the files on the backup disk. Anyone know what could cause this problem. I found one other person that had this problem and solved it by switching off the proxy service in the browser. This didn't work for me.
The instructions for creating a tar file at the command line are beyond my ken. It might work if you could get BackupPC_tarCreate to actually run, find the proper security setup for it and figure out where to put the tar file. I gave up.
Thanks in advance
Gary R
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David Christensen
Nov 14, 2012, 9:00:01 PM11/14/12
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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"?
> 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.
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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Ralf Mardorf
Nov 15, 2012, 1:30:02 AM11/15/12
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On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:53 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> 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
Also OT:
> 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
Even if the heads do this click-click noise and the HDD can't start up,
it's usually possible to free the heads by knocking against the wired,
but dismantled HDD and to copy data from the drive by repeating this
procedure as often as needed.
Regards,
Ralf
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Gary Roach
Nov 15, 2012, 12:10:02 PM11/15/12
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On 11/14/2012 05:53 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> 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
>
>
The /bin directory appears to have been corrupted somehow. With Knoppix
> 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
>
>
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.
Gary R
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