tar error unrecoverable?

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sat Jan 25 19:25:01 UTC 2014


On 25 January 2014 18:52, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:12:50 +0000
> Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 25 January 2014 12:10, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
>> > ...
>> > Meaning... When I attempted (failed being implied here) to copy
>> > back to it's original home is when the error occurred. The result
>> > was 3GB of the file transferred before Nautilus reported the IO
>> > error.
>>
>> If you are getting an error when you copy the file then it is nothing
>> to do with tar, the problem is reading the original or writing the
>> copy and is probably a hardware issue of some sort.
>
> I haven't been able to verify the health of the disc yet. (#2 disc)
>
>> You should be able to tell from the error which disc it was trying to
>> access when it failed.  There may well be something in
>> /var/log/syslog.
>>
>
> I looked at the log at the time and didn't see anything that looked
> suspicious.
>
> Earlier I tried using dd with the noerror option to copy back to
> the original disc. syslog shows:

Why are you using noerror?  If dd shows read errors then there is no
point carrying on.  Immediately backup any important data on the disc
and chuck it.

Colin




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