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@MasterTH - Yep, changed the cable when I changed the drive - thanks for the idea though... @RobFantini - No raid involved. Incidentally, after yesterday's reboot, the backup succeeded overnight. If history is an indicator, it will work for a day or two then fail again....

This IS the replacement drive with the same issues. SpinRite from GRC did a full surface analysis on this drive and it's predecessor and reported no errors. Any other places to look?

I agree it *seems* to be a file system error of some variety. It's EXT3 and I just finished a fsck.ext3 -yf /dev/sdc1 which of course reported no errors. I did have to reboot the machine to get it to mount /dev/sdc1 as it was complaining that it was not a valid block device. It would appear...

All, I've been having trouble with backups lately. I have a 500GB VM that I'm backing up nightly (max backup copies: 2) to a 1.5TB disk. It has been running fine for well over a year and the started failing complaining about the backup drive having broken pipes. I suspected the backup drive...