[Box Backup] Restoring from a hardware failure

[Per Thomsen]

On 7/22/05 1:48 AM, Ben Summers wrote:

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> On 21 Jul 2005, at 22:22, Per Thomsen wrote:
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>> The platform for the server is Linux FC2, and I've tried to delete  
>> the files, but to no avail. I keep getting I/O errors from 'rm'.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas about how to get rid of these files?
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>
> Just to check, this is nothing to do with Box Backup, is it?

You're right, nothing to do with Box, but I thought someone here might 
be able to help.

>> Would bbstored recover from removing the entire directory in question?
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> Yes (although it sounds more like you'll have to move that directory  
> away rather than deleting it all). As long as you use bbstoreaccounts  
> to check and fix the store account afterwards.
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> Isn't RAID and journalling supposed to prevent this kind of problem?  
> Has fsck helped?

Yeah, that's what I thought. fsck happily states that the drive is 
clean. This is an ext3 file system.

I'll try to move the directory away, and do a bbstoreaccounts fix.

Thanks,
Per

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