I've been successfully running a daily cron script to backup certain things on my server but just recently I started getting input/output errors for everything. For each directory the script tries to backup I now get this:

cp: accessing `/mnt/backup/**dir**/': Input/output error

Hi,

Can you please send me your backup scipt so that i can suggest you any solution.

Regards,
shafi

#!/bin/bash
cp -r -f /home/dir1/public_html/ /mnt/backup/dir1/
cp -r -f /var/lib/mysql/ /mnt/backup/database
cp -r -f /home/dir2/public_html/ /mnt/backup/dir2
cp -r -f /home/dir3/public_html/ /mnt/backup/dir3
cp -r -f /home/dir4/public_html/userdata/users_index.txt /mnt/backup/dir4/public_html/
exit

hi,

/mnt/backup dir is on another disk or the same disk ?.
if its on the other disk the other disk may be damaged .

regards,
una

/mnt/backup is a seperate NAS backup disk provided by my dedicated server provider.

Can you post the output of this command:

df -k /mnt/backup