[mythtv-users] SMARTD reports a drive issue with a MythTV Storage drive

[Scott Pleavin]

On 13-01-17 02:05 PM, Ben Kamen wrote:
> So SMARTD reported to me this morning that last night (probably
> recording a show):
>
> CurrentPendingSector bumped up from 0 to 1
>
> and
>
> OfflineUncorrectableSector bumped up from 0 to 1.
>
> I run 2 drives for Myth but NOT in a RAID. So 1/2 of my TV recordings
> are on one drive.
>
> What's the best method for backing this drive up so myth doesn't
> complain?
>
> I would imagine it would be something like:
>
>   * Shutdown the masterbackend.
>   * copy all the files from the failing drive to someplace else
>   * replace with new drive and format/configure as needed
>   * copy files back to new drive from temp storage
>   * start up masterbackend
>
> Am I missing anything else?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  -Ben
>
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I used ddrescue to do something similar just a couple days ago, it will
clone the drive.