Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17May2020 19:38, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 7:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see w

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 7:33 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 2020-05-18 07:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perh

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 7:12 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see what they have in stock and do a drive up p

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On 2020-05-18 07:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > > On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a >>> new drive... >>> >>> So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running a

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17May2020 15:11, George N. White III wrote: According to the man page, "fsck.xfs" is just "exit 0". It has has lead up logic to accept the correct command line arguments, but yes. The kernel "mount" for XFS does any repair. It is all very nice. There is a separae "xfs_repair" command fo

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17May2020 16:29, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... FYI, there's a BSD derived command called "yes" whose purpose in life is to print "yes" (or a string of your choice) forever, precisely for piping into other pro

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17May2020 19:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Well I am shopping for a USB ext HD... At least 2TB, <$100, USB 2, Good life time    2,5" or 3.5"? Well I will call the local Micro Center tomorrow and see what they have in stock and do a drive up pickup. I tend to buy Western Digital Element

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 6:37 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? No.  You could possibly get messed up files,

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/17/20 1:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? No. You could possibly get messed up files, although rsync is pretty safe. But you s

Re: Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 17:30, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I hope. > > I basically jammed done the y key until it finished. I am going to get > a new drive... > > So many errors. I wonder how? Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? > It is almost certainly a hardware problem: hard disk, cabl

Fixed - Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I hope. I basically jammed done the y key until it finished.  I am going to get a new drive... So many errors.  I wonder how?  Perhaps 2 rsyncs running at the same time? On 5/17/20 3:51 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 5/17/20 3:32 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, R

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc]  Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK This is a command transport failure of the lowlevel driver. I know such effects from dying USB boxes with optical drives (having SATA controllers). https://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/archived/SCSI-Pr

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 3:32 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote: # fsck /dev/sdc fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /d

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Jonathan Billings
On May 17, 2020, at 14:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > # fsck /dev/sdc > fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 > e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) > fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc > > [...] > # parted /dev/sdc

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 2:13 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 5/17/20 10:22 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I get this bad file out of the way so I can back up properly? IIRC, an IO error can result from either a corrupt filesystem or a media error.  The kernel "dmesg" can tell you more about the cause

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 5/17/20 1:52 PM, Richard wrote: Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 From: Robert Moskowitz I am having a problem with rsyncing: rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home rsync: readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel /Home/Pow

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 5/17/20 10:22 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: How can I get this bad file out of the way so I can back up properly? IIRC, an IO error can result from either a corrupt filesystem or a media error.  The kernel "dmesg" can tell you more about the cause of the error, typically.  If there's filesy

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread George N. White III
On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 14:54, Richard wrote: > > > Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 > > From: Robert Moskowitz > > > > I am having a problem with rsyncing: > > > > rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ > > /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home > > rsync: > > readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/bac

Re: I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Richard
> Date: Sunday, May 17, 2020 13:22:54 -0400 > From: Robert Moskowitz > > I am having a problem with rsyncing: > > rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ > /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home > rsync: > readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel > /Home/Power usage.xls") fail

I/O error on a file on a backup drive

2020-05-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am having a problem with rsyncing: rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ /media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home rsync: readlink_stat("/media/HD103SI/backups/homebase/home/abba/abba/Excel/Home/Power usage.xls") failed: Input/output error (5) rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/media/HD103SI/bac