I am not sure the disk is toast. We had problems previously that were solved with a better directory structure. Maybe this is the same problem again. The CitEc AMF data has grown a lot recently, if some directory has a lot of files, this would replicate the earlier problem. Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Thomas Krichel wrote:
Christian Zimmermann writes
UConn has no backup under the understanding that you were backing\ up.
This is extremely bad news. Because of the problems that I had with fafner and raneb, and in the aftermath of that backup has been shaky. I have no backup of /home/aras.
This is putting us into an extremly difficult situation. We need to stop the machine asap, run a disk check, and recover whatever we can on another machine, from /home/aras.
Let me know if there is anything I could do to help. I have beenn running an rsync backup as soon as the machine was back up, checking my local records. But it did not get to /home/aras until the machine crashed. This disk is toast.
We need more help with backup and system administration.
Cheers,
Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel RePEc:per:1965-06-05:thomas_krichel phone: +7 383 330 6813 skype: thomaskrichel