[rdiff-backup-users] Re: rdiff backup failed (unknown reason)

[Philippe Froidevaux]

Hi rdiff-backup-users,

I told you last month I had a backup failure.

now I know from where it comes : my backup disc has an hardware failure 
with bad blocks.

The backup failled on one file. If I try to read this file on the backup 
disc I get :
[root]# ls -l 
export/lv00/SUNlocal/perl-5.6.1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/Field/AddrList.pm
ls: 
export/lv00/SUNlocal/perl-5.6.1/lib/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/Field/AddrList.pm: 
Input/output error

This is a linux ext3 partition.


I think rdiff-backup can't repair my discs :)

But I would like to ask if it were possible to detect this kind of 
problem and report them - and not just die without explanation.


Philippe.