Tony Voss Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Hello to this forum. I have been attempting to backup to a file backup set on a SmartDisk SOHO NAS attached to my router. At various times I get errors indicating data intgerity problems. They occur at different times depending on what I am backing up, but seem reproducably to occur at the same point in the same sequence. Once the error has occured, the backup set is unusable. Details: SmartDisk SOHO NAS with firmware v2.3.2.01 (running Linux with disk formatted in EXT3) [it works with everything else so far] Mac OS/X 10.4.8, Retrospect 6.1.126 Errors first reported as 'Trouble matching <backup set>, error -24201 (chunk checksum didn't match).' EMC suggests this is a disk error, but after I updated to latest RDU v6.1.8.101 it has changed to: 'Bad backup set header found (0x84a193e6 at 1,182,268) [exact disk address varies]' I do not believe this is a disk error but a data intergity problem. The drive reports no Smart errors. Any help would be much appreciated. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted November 18, 2006 Report Share Posted November 18, 2006 Quote: I do not believe this is a disk error but a data intergity problem What's the difference? It sounds as if data being copied to the disk is becoming corrupted. This is likely caused by a problem with the NAS device. SMART is limited in what it reports, depending on the implementation. The lack of an error does not guarantee anything. - Will your Macintosh recognize the drive if you connect it directly via USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Voss Posted November 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2006 CallMeDave... According to MacWorld there is a 4GB file size limit for disks formatted in the default FAT32 format (although this might be incorrect), so I reformated the drive to EXT3 before starting to load up my data. It is thus no longer directly recognisable by Mac OS/X through the USB interface (as stated in the manual). I referred to a possible data integrety problem meaning that either Retrospect or the NAS Linux system might be causing the error (e.g. a caching or logic error) rather than the drive itself writing or reading the data incorrectly. I recall that there was a Retrospect Driver Update a month or so ago to correct a problem with a different brand of NAS, so it is possible that there is a problem other than hardware disk errors - but I do not know which it is in my case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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