rsync error

lesage · 2008-08-31 14:48:21

Hi

I'm trying to backup my external fat32 disk onto a internal disk (ext2) on my linux device..

The command I'm using is

 rsync -va /media/extern/dir /media/data1/dir

then some bits and pieces get copied but my screen fills with the repeating message :

 Ext2-fs error(device sdb1): ext2_valid_block_bitmap:invalid block bitmap_block_group= xxxx, block xxxxxxxxxx

xxxx being each line a new sequential number

I stop the operation with crtl - c after some time because I don't trust the copy it is making

in the rsync command i use -va ... v because I want to see what is going on and a because I want dir subdirs and files to be fully copied..

any thoughts are welcome

thanks

s.

byte · 2008-09-01 12:56:19

Well, your internal disk seems busted. Whip out your rescue live cd of choice and look what smartctl, e2fsck and dmesg say about the drive. But only after mounting it read-only and attempting one last full backup. Sometimes you are lucky and reading from a drive still works while writing doesn't.

lesage · 2008-09-04 13:25:32

the disk seem fine ... it is empty, I have reformatted them with partitionmagic this time to an ext3 format.
now when I write to them with rsync I still get that same error in verbose but the copying happens...
It's a new internal disk.. should I format it diffrently ?

thanks

Last edited by lesage (2008-09-04 13:25:58)

byte · 2008-09-05 01:03:33

1) e2fsck -vccf /dev/yourdiskandpartition (takes ages)
2) pacman -S smartmontools; smartctl -s on /dev/yourdisk; smartctl -t long /dev/yourdisk; (wait); smartctl -l selftest /dev/yourdisk

If there's really nothing wrong with the disk after that... well, then I'm out of ideas. Google time. Or try a different filesystem (reiser/jfs).

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#1 2008-08-31 14:48:21

rsync error

#2 2008-09-01 12:56:19

Re: rsync error

#3 2008-09-04 13:25:32

Re: rsync error

#4 2008-09-05 01:03:33

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