[plug] Dying Samba Server

[Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions)]

Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Daniel Pearson (Flashware Solutions) 
> <daniel at flashware.net> wrote:
>> Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dead HDD? :(
>> >
>> > Probably. Or RAM. But given the DMA stuff I'd be looking at the HDD
>> > quite squarely. You did back up and stuff after I suggested it could
>> > be that before right? =)
>> >
>> > Tomasz
>> > _______________________________________________
>> I ended up ghosting onto a spare drive, then running fdisk /mbr from a
>> Win 98 boot floppy (as GRUB wouldn't start up..), and then all was good.
>>
>> Ran Seagate's utility on the drive, showed it as being no good, so
>> getting that RA'd now.. Going to dump in a second hard drive now, and
>> RSync to it every night.
>>
>>
>> Was lucky this time, but maybe next time I won't be.. so will follow a
>> strict backup routine :)
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> Software RAID may be a good option for a server-kind of machine if you
> have to rebuild the beast anyway (or if you make a tarball of the
> whole HDD)..
>
> Anyway looks like you've found and fixed the problem.
Didn't have to rebuild - which was good. Have purchased another HDD of 
the same size, and planning to do an RSync to it every night (incremental).

Is the best way a shell script that will:
- mount drive
- rsync
- unmount

Should I be complicating the script more than that?

Cheers; Dan