[BlueOnyx:15000] Re: ERROR createTar: Input/output error

[Dudi Goldenberg]

Hi Michael,

>> If the errors indeed comes while reading the source - 
>> the tarball could be fine, but I would not trust the content.
>
>Yeah, but if /home is about to go bad and there are no good prior
>backups, then it's perhaps the best shot available.
>
>One of the next steps would be unmounting /home for an fsck to see if
>this is fixable. But that's already a bit risky, as the nature of the
>problem makes it uncertain if it'll ever mount /home again.

Agreed.

I didn’t say don’t backup... I just said not to trust the backup.

Step #1 for me would be cmuImport and check the content, then fsck if needed.

Regards,

D.