SSD not recognized and giving error

[sofasurfer]

My 1tb system drive is only one half full. My 320gb HDD backup drive is full and backintime keeps getting shut down because of it. I replace my backup with a good 240gb SSD and attempted to backup only a 100gb folder in my system and it finishes the backup but there are two errors at the end of the backup...

 [E] Error: rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)
[E] 'rsync' ended with exit code 11: See 'man rsync' for more details

What is causing these errors.

Also, when I open backintime I get an error...

 can't find snapshot folder. if its on a removable drive please plug it in and press ok

If I just delete the message backintime will open and it shows my backups and it I press "take a snapshot" it DOES take a snapshot even thought it said it could not find the folder. Hmmmm...

Any ideas?

I did try a different SSD. Same thing.
I did try a different SSD connection. Same thing.

 

[sofasurfer]

I think I found my problem. My root partition is full. I am afraid to resize my home and move my root right now. I need to order a new backup SSD before I do anything.

 

[osprey]

My 1tb system drive is only one half full. My 320gb HDD backup drive is full and backintime keeps getting shut down because of it. I replace my backup with a good 240gb SSD and attempted to backup only a 100gb folder in my system and it finishes the backup but there are two errors at the end of the backup...

 [E] Error: rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32)
[E] 'rsync' ended with exit code 11: See 'man rsync' for more details

What is causing these errors.

Also, when I open backintime I get an error...

 can't find snapshot folder. if its on a removable drive please plug it in and press ok

If I just delete the message backintime will open and it shows my backups and it I press "take a snapshot" it DOES take a snapshot even thought it said it could not find the folder. Hmmmm...

Any ideas?

I did try a different SSD. Same thing.
I did try a different SSD connection. Same thing.

Error 11 in the rsync man page says: "11 - Error in file I/O". The explanation in the error message is "Broken pipe". So the file failed to get through to the destination side because the connection was closed for some reason, that is, "Broken".

There are numerous reasons the connection broke, for example: network interruptions, disks filling up, permissions issues, timeouts being exceeded, segmentation faults, and more. I can't say why, other than check as much as possible for those issues.

Basically one can do a few things to try troubleshoot and/or avoid the breakage. For example:

Check the logs to see if there's anything useful there.
Update to the latest rsync version.
Split large transfers into smaller chunks.
Test transfers with the option: --dry-run before running the command to check what will work.

I've read that avoiding compression or even compressed files can help because they may overload the pipe, so some attention to that may be useful, though I can't say I've had such an issue here.

 

[Condobloke]

My root partition is full.

Do you mean the larger part of the disc which also stores the operating system (Linux Mint?) and apps etc ??
or, do you mean the smaller portion of the disc, which is usually only around 500MB...??

 

[sofasurfer]

My 1tb drive uses 53.91tb for Ubuntu, 847.76 for home.
I only have 69mb free in ubuntu partition right now.
I can get a new 1tb drive at Best Buy tomorrow. I will format it with a larger ubuntu partition.
My backup drive no longer has a full backup so I am stumped at how I am going to transfer my old partitions into the new partitions. I will probably clone my system to the new drive and then attempt to resize and move my old drive partitions. That way if it glitches I will still have the clone.
Sound like a plan? Or is there a better way?

 

[Condobloke]

You used a 240GB SSD in an attempt to save whatever you could, but encountered problems(errors) in doing so.
Is it feasible to simply copy and paste...drag and drop files to that 240 GB ?

Will that give you sufficient space to make a proper backup/allow backintime to function as it normally would ?

 

[sofasurfer]

Although my system is on a 1tb drive (that was only about a third full) my backup drive was only 240gb but no longer big enough for a full backup and thus, it fails. I may try to do a backup on the new 1tb drive and it may work. If it does than all will be good. We'll see tomorrow. Until then I'll have nothing to try. Hopefully backintime can do its thing on a drive thats got no more wiggle room.
Good night.

 

[theLegionWithin]

My 1tb drive uses 53.91tb for Ubuntu, 847.76 for home.
I only have 69mb free in ubuntu partition right now.
I can get a new 1tb drive at Best Buy tomorrow. I will format it with a larger ubuntu partition.

Sound like a plan? Or is there a better way?

storage is relatively cheap and a good investment. my methodology is such that I keep all media (movies, music, backups) on external storage (ssd's), and only the os/apps/games on the nvme (which is 11% full). when I installed the os I didnt set a different partition for /home, so if the os needs more room then it's not a problem.

if you cant clear up space in your os partition (clearing the package manager cache, trimming journal entries, etc) then getting another drive may be a good option - you can always just remove your current drive and set it aside, set up a new drive with better partitioning, and then remount the old drive to pull whatever data you want from it.

 

[sofasurfer]

I got my new 1tb ssd today. I backed up my home onto it and then I backed up my / on my old 240gb ssd. So far so good.
Next I inserted my mint dvd and opened gparted. First I shrank my home and then moved it to the right. Then I enlarged my / to fill the gap. So far my system works fine.

Now I am trying to get the new 1tb formatted with two partitions for my / and /home. I think I am having ownership issues. I used "disks" to make the ssd auto mount on startup then I formatted it as ext4. At this point I get an "!" at the partition listing. I think this means ownership issue. What should I do?

 

[sofasurfer]

I just noticed something. When I format the ssd it does not say "all operations completed". It just has the "completed operations" followed by the progress bar (which looks completed). So apparently the formatting is not completed. I also do not see an option to create an extended partition. If I have a ownership issue could this be the problem?

 

[sofasurfer]

I fixed it I think. I asked AI what the issue is. I was told to create a new partition table (which I have never done before because it sound scary). The problem is fixed.