[SWLUG] Rsync Problems

[Jon Reynolds]

I ran fsck on the disk and it seemed to throw a lot 'issues' up, all of
which I answered yes to fix. The couple of times its ran since then seem 
be OK now. Will see if the problems accumulate again as the backup
continues.

Cheers

Jon Reynolds

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 01:14:26PM +0100, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 08:14 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have set up an old laptop to act as a small home server at home, the
> > idea being that it is quiet and low powered to be left on basically
> > 24/7.
> > 
> > Storage was an issue as I wanted it to act as a file server for music
> > and somewhere to store my photos, videos etc. So in the end I have 2
> > external aluminium USB enclosures for 3.5" HDDs.
> > 
> > The problem with this is that they are 'on' constantly as there doesn't
> > seem to be any way of powering them down after a period of inactivity.
> > Therefore they are HOT all the time and I am concerned this may be
> > killing them.
> > 
> > I have set up a basic script to backup my web server to this home server
> > once a week using rsync. I get an email from cron to show me the results
> > of the backup and I seem to be getting increasing amounts of errors.
> > 
> > Here is a selection of some of the errors from the rsync output:
> > 
> > rsync:
> > readlink_stat("/home/jonr/media/.jcrdev/home-backup/Maildir/.SWLUG/cur/1277284768.5371_1.jcrdevelopments.com:2,")
> > failed: Input/output error (5)
> 
> does rather sound like disk errors.
> 
> if it is, there should also be messages in that machines dmesg log.
> 
> also check the state of the hard drive using 'smartctl -a /dev/sda' or
> whatever the drive device is.  pay particular attention to these values
> 5 Reallocated Sector Count
> 197 Current Pending Sector
> 198 Offline Uncorrectable
> 
> as any significant numbers in those tend to indicate the disk is on its
> last legs.
> 
> 
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