Disk Death

[Kurt Wall]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 06:23:08PM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:25:57PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > That sucks.  smartd never alerted you to any problems?
> >
> > No. However, just for giggles, I stuck the drive back into its bay a
> > little while ago and, lo, it's back. This gives me *no* confidence in
> > the disk -- an aging Maxtor DiamondMax -- so I'm going to take another
> > backup, run badblocks on it, then fdisk and reformat it.

[backup]

> What is your backup of choice? "cp", "rsync" or do you use something more
> comprehensive?

DAR (Disk ARchiver): http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Kurt
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Can't open /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes.  Lid stuck on cookie jar.