[Watford] SLUG

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Mar 29 13:37:48 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:32:40PM +0200, Yvan Seth wrote:

> Those specific files aside, from the number of sector errors in dmesg
> I'm guessing there must be more files that have this problem.  I'm also
> guessing that Alain's backup only recently began to fail on these ...
> which means we could have flash that's gradually dying (i.e. if the
> flash is something we can replace we should replace it ASAP, we have a
> case of phyical bit-rot.)
> 
> I don't have time left to try to quatantine and restore files as per
> Alain's instructions ... perhaps after work if nobody else gets to it
> sooner.

The backup holds snapshot of the last 14 days + 1st of every month.
These do not look like files that should have changed, so it should not
be hard to get good copies back again.

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