Recovering from disk errors

	I'm hosed. I woke up this morning to a series of I/O error messages on 
my server. They were so bad that I couldn't even log in at the console 
to try to correct the problem.

	I rebooted, and ran the drives through the SCSI utilities to check for 
problems, and then fsck'ed like crazy, due to all the problems 
reported. Supposedly, though, the disk is fixed, at least to fsck's 
liking.

	I can't start Zope, though. Since I store my data in /usr/zopestorage, 
and the highest number of errors was in the /usr partition, I'm not too 
surprised. I looked at the docs on the website, and found "checkds.py - 
DirectoryStorage checking tool". Sounds like a good start, so I ran it:

[root@leafe DirectoryStorage]python snapshot.py /usr/zopestorage - 
python checkds.py
failed to open /usr/zopestorage/config/snapshot.conf
SnapshotError: directory is not a snapshot

	OK, not too surprising. So I renamed this to zopestorage.BAD, and then 
restored from my backup. But when I ran it again, I got the exact same 
result.

	So what do you suggest I do next?

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  Ed Leafe
  http://leafe.com/
  http://dabodev.com/



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