Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:56:31 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: aslam_mohamed@wordbank.com Cc: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Thinking of using ZFS/FBSD for a backup system Message-ID: <4874C38F.9040706@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4874BEFF.20202@wordbank.com> References: <bd9320b30807072315x105cf058tf9f952f0f5bb2a6a@mail.gmail.com> <20080708100701.57031cda@twoflower.in.publishing.hu> <bd9320b30807080131j5e0e02a4y3231d7bfa1738517@mail.gmail.com> <4873C4FA.2020004@FreeBSD.org> <20080709062533.J58331@woozle.rinet.ru> <48749087.4070802@FreeBSD.org> <20080709145010.Q58331@woozle.rinet.ru> <48749EA7.40702@FreeBSD.org> <20080709152739.Q58331@woozle.rinet.ru> <4874A453.7060406@FreeBSD.org> <4874A981.7080106@wordbank.com> <4874B58B.7000108@FreeBSD.org> <4874BEFF.20202@wordbank.com>
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aslam_mohamed@wordbank.com wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I did get some weired messages like ' vdev > failure' just two days before the ZFS pool disappeared, but I don't > know whether this is from ZFS or another GEOM issue. I shut the machine > down and restarted everything back and got it to do the sync again. > Later I noticed zpool status was showing some big numbers like (83, 90 > ...) on checksum column. I did the zpool clear and it cleared the > numbers. Then I think couple days later the sync process stopped in the > middle. When I investigated it, I found that zpool status is not there. > I think the firewire/FreeBSD could be a potential contributor to this > problem. Now I am trying to recover the backup data (if there is any in > external disks!!) by connecting the external disks to SUN Solaris and > getting the SUN/ZFS to see the pool!!!.. I cant think of any other ways > to recover the backup!!!.. It probably should have set off alarms for you when you first started seeing checksum failures. That indicates a serious problem! At this point, it sounds like your data might be highly corrupted, and unfortunately, perhaps too corrupted to recover. Krishome | help
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