okay... this means I'm now in the market for an external drive. I'm looking through amazon and run across drives that support mac. can I get those?

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
Sounds like your drive may have developed some bad blocks and formatting it caused it to recover... but I wouldn't use that drive for backups anymore because it's dying and it's only a matter of a short amount of time before it fails and you loose everything.   In fact, I wouldn't use a thumb drive for backups at all.  They aren't designed to be written to in bulk over and over like you are trying to do and they will fail quickly.  Get yourself a good external drive.   You should go with a regular spinning drive as there are no advantages to backing up to flash over USB.  A flash drive will fail a lot more quickly than a spinning drive with the way you are using them though.  You'll also get a whole lot more space on a hard disk drive so you can alter your backup procedure to keep multiple versions.

Brian Cluff


On 04/29/2017 05:49 AM, Michael wrote:
it is going very slowly though for some of the files.

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
well.... I format the drive and things are transferring now.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
I think I fried it in my glove compartment.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
$ sudo fsck /dev/sdd
[sudo] password for bmike1: 
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
fsck.ext2: No medium found while trying to open /dev/sdd

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 or
    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>
<mount device>
bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sudo fsck /dev/sdd
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
/dev/sdd is in use.
e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting.


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:50 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
$ sudo fsck /media/bmike1/GORILLA64
[sudo] password for bmike1: 
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
fsck.ext2: Is a directory while trying to open /media/bmike1/GORILLA64

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 or
    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>
 $ sudo fsck /dev/sdd1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck.fat 3.0.26 (2014-03-07)
0x41: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt.
1) Remove dirty bit
2) No action
? ^C
<unmount device>
bmike1@MikesBeast ~ $ sudo fsck /dev/sdd1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdd1
Possibly non-existent device?


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com> wrote:

What does fsck say?

 

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 4:41 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: Rsync ran like 30-40 minutes

 

this is what happened in that time:

 

 $ rsync -aWuq --delete-before --progress /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/GORILLA64

^C

rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632) [sender=3.1.0]

rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at io.c(521) [generator=3.1.0]

 $

I then removed the quiet flag and:

 $ rsync -aWu --delete-before --progress /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/GORILLA64

building file list ... 

63787 files to consider

deleting Documents/Business/Photography/PropertyPhotographing/PrivateClients/Alliya Maqsood/2016/2016101020/8230 Dames point crossing Blvd #802 Jacksonville 32277

deleting Documents/Programs/darktable-2.0.6/src/common/.profiling.h.YhVpro

Documents/

<truncate)

hangs at:

Documents/Programs/darktable-2.0.6/src/control/jobs.c

^Crsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632) [sender=3.1.0]

rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at io.c(521) [generator=3.1.0]

 

So I run again and:

rsync -aWu --delete-before --progress /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/GORILLA64

building file list ... 

63787 files to consider

rsync: [generator] write error: Broken pipe (32)

^Crsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632) [sender=3.1.0]

rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)

 

and again:

$ rsync -aWu --delete-before --progress /home/bmike1/Documents /media/bmike1/GORILLA64

building file list ... 

63787 files to consider

Documents/

<truncate>

this time it hung at :

Documents/Programs/hugin-2016.2.0/mac/Applications.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

         32,768  15%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00  ^X^C

rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632) [sender=3.1.0]

rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at io.c(521) [generator=3.1.0]

 

I'm thinking this flash drive got fried in the glove compartment of my car. What do you think?

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