Re: Can Debian Backup ntfs File System?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:32:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:

Camaleón wrote:

Well, no need to worry. You are thinking in the worst scenario but even
if the file system structure is completey destroyed, "defrag" is also
capable of performing a test only disk analysis and so does "chkdsk".

Well, it depends on the value of the data whether to worry or not. If it
really is important data and the disk already shows some harddisk errors
(one possible reason for the failure to boot), then it might be really
dangerous to strain the fragile device with time consuming windows
defrag instead on focussing on getting the data off the dying disk.

Last backup was from a year ago, that should give you some hints about
how valuable is data for the user.

NTFS is quite robust. In fact, it survives better to unforeseen shutdowns
than other linux filesystems. And again, if you are concerned about the
"fragile" status of the file system, run the diagnosis tools in test mode.

Heck, diagnosis tools are precisely for debugging problems with hard disk
and file system structure. You can't even know there is a problem -nor
what kind of problem is- if you don't get feedback from these tools.

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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