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lesage

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Registered: 2008-08-18

Posts: 9

rsync error

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.

fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: rsync error

Interesting... Looking at the error (and Google doesn't reveal much :S), it seems your ext2 partition is barfing out at something...

Can you unmount the partition and run an fsck against it?

fsck /dev/sdb1

Last edited by fukawi2 (2008-09-01 11:13:18)

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Re: rsync error

Don't cross-post.

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