[Borgbackup] What to do if file is lost?

Tomasz Melcer liori at exroot.org
Wed Jul 6 11:02:34 EDT 2016


On 06.07.2016 15:56, Marian Beermann wrote:
> On 06.07.2016 15:53, Tomasz Melcer wrote:
>> My storage for backups developed a bad block (found using `btrfs
>> scrub`). I made a copy of everything, except for one file that seem to
>> be hit by badblock (an index.«some number») file. The original medium
>> still seems to work fine—I mean, if not for `btrfs scrub`, I wouldn't
>> know about the problem.
>>
>> […]
>
> index.N and hints.N are expendable. Regenerating takes a while (size of
> repository divided by average sequential read speed).

Ah, thank you. Out of curiosity, what about other files? What will 
happen if I lose one of the data files (will I just lose the chunks 
stored in that file?), or the config file?


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Tomasz Melcer


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