On 11/20 05:18 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
BackupPC puts substantial additional load on disks, because it forces them to seek every file, and on a heavily fragmented filesystem this can add up to a lot of head movement which would normally not take place. So a drive which might have been marginal before, might fail when you do the backup of it. I've had this happen to me once or twice (once with disastrous consequences when I found that the new external drive enclosure I was using for the backuppc data pool was no good, so I lost the backup that caused the client disk to fail, and then discovered that the LVM RAID I had been using to give me a redundant client disk had stopped replicating a year before and not given me any signs I recognized... fortunately it was only my own data, and not someone else's that I lost). So be aware that this can happen. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
