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I lost a disk. It's clicking, which seems to be something almost everyone agrees is not very fixable.

I have backups. Problem is, I look at the backups and the first thing I think is "Is that all I had on them? I thought I had more."

The drive was mounted in Ubuntu, permanently, as /home/home. Not that it matters, but mostly it had backups.

Is there anyway to tell from the system itself whether I had anything on that disk that is not part of the backups? (Which I can restore, but I have not as yet). That is, is there some log or something that would tell me something about the files that I had on that disk and confirm for me that there weren't directories/files on the mount point that were not backed up?

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  • You could possibly look to see what the most recently dated file is. That would let you know roughly when the last backup was made.
    – Michael Frank
    Commented May 5, 2015 at 0:16
  • Thanks Michael. I have the backups, so I know when the backups were run. What I don't know is whether all the directories were actually set ti be backed up. I think they were, but now that I can't read the disk, I don't know. I now wonder whether I left some directories not backed up.
    – codenoob
    Commented May 5, 2015 at 0:46
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    what method was used to backup? some tools /apps do have retrievable logs.
    – linuxdev2013
    Commented May 5, 2015 at 6:13

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