Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late
Date	2025-08-02 03:39 +0200
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On 2025-08-02 01:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:31:54 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
>> I lost 540 MB from a failed Fujitsu drive in 1998 and found out the
>> backup was invalid the hard way.
> 
> My backups are done with rsync, or script wrappers around rsync. They are
> effectively mirror filesystems, not in any special “backup” format. These
> are the easiest to verify, and restoration can be done with the same file-
> manipulation commands I use every day.
> 
> In particular, that means that, in a moment of crisis (which is what
> happens when you find you’ve lost data), I am doing the restoration using
> familiar commands with which I am (hopefully) less likely to make
> mistakes.

Once an rsync backup deleted the original.

I was using the --delete parameter, which is intended to delete files 
that are gone from the source, and delete them in the destination (when 
you overwrite a backup). Unfortunately, the paths were messed up, and it 
deleted the files on the source of another different backup.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-31 00:26 +0000
  Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-30 23:02 -0400
  Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-31 15:21 +0200
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-31 14:39 +0100
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-01 01:08 +0000
      Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:03 +0200
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 10:05 +0200
      Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:04 +0200
        Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 14:31 +0200
          Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:40 +0200
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 18:16 +0200
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            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 02:15 -0400
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          Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-01 23:55 +0000
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-02 03:39 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-02 03:24 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 02:04 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-02 13:59 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 03:03 -0400
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                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-06 06:37 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-06 04:03 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-07 07:14 +1000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-06 22:16 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-07 18:20 +0100
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-07 18:22 +0100
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-08 09:10 +1000
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            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-02 10:07 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-02 23:32 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 21:36 -0400

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