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Guidance on backups

ShaunHH said:
Should I still just leave it going?
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I would stop it and see what the SMART stats. say. and maybe run a long self test to check.
If it says there's an error in LBA 0, then I think your only option is possibly a security erase (search the forum).
If that doesn't fix it then it's a one-way trip to the WEEE bin for that disk (I don't think you told us what model etc. it is), having copied the contents to a new one (search the forum).
 
prpr said:
I would stop it and see what the SMART stats. say. and maybe run a long self test to check.
If it says there's an error in LBA 0, then I think your only option is possibly a security erase (search the forum).
If that doesn't fix it then it's a one-way trip to the WEEE bin for that disk (I don't think you told us what model etc. it is), having copied the contents to a new one (search the forum).
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I stopped it, removed it and put in a (smaller 240Gb ) SSD that I had around - which might keep me going for a while.

Lucky I had that backup tar file after my discussions here (Thanks everyone!!), as I could get back all my settings for WebIF etc.

Only issue I had was doing uncompacting my backup tar file on the humax without having a tar command. Reinstalled a basic WebIF and then used tar (which is part of Busybox). Maybe there is a better way of doing this (for next time).

Luckily all my media is backed up up to my Synology NAS. I haven't copied any over - I suppose this would be quite slow to do so over the Network.
Maybe I can put the original disk in another PC, do a reformat etc and see if it might be reliable next time around or despatch it to the HDD graveyard...

Thanks again for all the help everyone here!
 
ShaunHH said:
... without having a tar command. Reinstalled a basic WebIF and then used tar (which is part of Busybox). Maybe there is a better way of doing this
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Slightly quicker to opkg install busybox or opkg install gtar, but it's neither here nor there.
 
prpr said:
Slightly quicker to opkg install busybox or opkg install gtar, but it's neither here nor there.
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thanks that's useful - I didn't see the gtar package when I was looking so it will be more flexible to have that for my backups (so I can use --exclude='/mod/tmp/*' as mentioned by df previously)
Apologies if this a Linux 101 question - but how do I make gtar the default version of tar when I type the tar command? It defaults to the busybox version. I guess it's an environmental variable that has to be changed?
 
Black Hole said:
Erm... isn't it just a case of typing "gtar"?
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No doesn't seem to be...
If I type gtar nothing..

If I type tar, I get
BusyBox v1.20.2 (2013-01-02 19:13:09 GMT) multi-call binary.

typing which tar gives
/mod/bin/tar

and I can run it directly (and this is gnu version it seems...)
but how to overidde the default tar command?
 
Mind you, I can copy the /mod/bin/tar file to gtar, set the execute permisson and then typing gtar at the terminal works :-)
Maybe a bit clunky though - I guess there must be some way of overriding the busybox version.
 
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