[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed Rsyncd on my XP Pro machine and performed a full backup. > Fourty-eight hours later my drive seems hosed. I have run a drive check > and it won't complete, it sticks at 82%. The drive check as finding a > nunmber of bad clusters and repairing files. > > To be fair I also allowed the Windows SP3 install in the same 48 hour > window between no problems and problems. I also allowed a Java upgrade. I > know, I know, what was I thinking!!!!! > > Anyway...what are the chances that rsyncd was responsible for the drive > going down by somehow scrambling the data or some other unintended > problem? Has anybody running rsyncd on XP Pro machines had any other > problems to report? > I think the issue is that you had bad clusters, and one of the things you installed happened to land on some of those bad clusters. The bad clusters probably went unnoticed until you tried to actually use them.
I've used rsyncd on a couple XP Pro machines with no problems. -Rob ******************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the addressee, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other dissemination or use of this transmission in error please notify the sender immediately and then delete this e-mail. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error free as information could be intercepted, corrupted lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard copy version. ******************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
