Re: dumping large partition to USB drive fails

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:32:21PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:09:48 +0200
Roland Smith <rsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 10:45:07PM -0400, Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
It's probabry your disk is dying based on your output.

I've being using GELI for while, i.e. like a year, with dump/resotre,
too. I never had problems with dump/restore.

My disk also failed recently with very similer messages.


The weird thing is, when I use the USB disk without encryption, it works
fine.

what happens if you dump your GELI partition first, and then the others?

I haven't tried that yet. But I did try dumping to another USB disk with
identical harddisk but slightly different enclosure, which worked
fine. So I guess that Yoshihiro is right, and the disk is crapping
out. Or the enclosure is malfunctioning.

Unfortunately I can't check the drives with smartctl; they produce an SCSI
error. I'll try 'camcontrol defects', and see if that turns up anything.

Roland
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