On 21/04/17 20:10, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Hi Geniuses!
I have a 2TB Seagate USB disk that is being used with backuppc to store daily backups. However, almost every day the backup is failing, and attempting to ls the drive gives "input/output error". Looking through DMESG shows multiple problems reading sectors on the disk, but I've yet to find a particular cause. If I reboot the machine, the drive immediately starts working again. If I fsck it, it reports no errors. The disk has two partitions on it, and the 2nd partition is used by SimpleBackup, and this seems to work fine. I'm currently backing up the backup before I do some more in-depth testing on it, and possibly reformat it. I forgot to mention that both partitions are encrypted. Do people think the disk is broken (bad sectors or hardware problems), or if not, any idea what's going on?
Any ideas, straws to clutch at?
I had a similar problem of a usb disk giving i/o errors but was fine (apart from some directory corruptions) on a re-boot. The simple problem was insufficient current from the PSU. The drive worked fine until it spun down. Then the next request pulled too much current as the drive spun up and marked the drive in error. A better PSU fixed my problem.
Hope your problem is just as simple.
regards Nev