Weird RSYNC problem

[dougmon]

I was restoring all of my music files from a backup and ran into a strange problem. About a third of the way into the B's, one file from the A's showed up in the log, and when I looked for that file it was gone.

Example of what the log entries looked like:

/music/flac/Bob/The_Album/92_Track92.flac
/music/flac/Alfie/Album_Two/17_Track17.flac

And when I looked for "/music/flac/Alfie/Album_Two/17_Track17.flac", that file was gone, even though it had been restored earlier.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,

Doug

[garym]

I'm not following you. Are you saying that after the restore, you do a clear and rescan of LMS (LMS > Settings) and you still are missing files you think should be there.

[dougmon]

It's the circumstance that's weird. I do a restore, rsyn shows me one track twice, and then when I look at the hard drive, the track that was shown twice is not there. It's just gone.

I mounted the backup drive and just tried to copy it (cp /backup/storage/music/flac/artist/album/track.flac .) and got some sort of IO Error. So I'm thinking perhaps I should just reformat the backup drive and redo the backup.

[garym]

That's probably what I'd do. Are you fairly certain that the VB contains all your files? (and it's always a good idea to have more than one backup drive....I have several,, stored at different locations.)

[ronolsen]

Try running fsck on the backup drive to see if it can repair any filesystem damage before taking the drastic step of reformatting the drive.

[garym]

Try running fsck on the backup drive to see if it can repair any filesystem damage before taking the drastic step of reformatting the drive.

Woo-hoo. Welcome back Ron!

[dougmon]

Try running fsck on the backup drive to see if it can repair any filesystem damage before taking the drastic step of reformatting the drive.

Thanks, Ron. I did try fsck, but it just returns immediately. Not sure why. I use "fsck -Vay /dev/sdb1". That's correct? Or not?

Thanks,

Doug