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**IriDium** · 23rd Jun, 2013, 01:42 AM

It would seem that the SD card is dead.

Even if you could recover "some" of the data the dependencies may not be met.

It's best to bite the bullet and remember the old saying "backup backup backup".

Soft backups can be made with xbmc-backup within xbmc, even scheduled to an external source.

Hard backups can be made by removing the SD card and using a windoze disk imaging software like http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ which will read the disk and make a backup image for you.

Remember SD cards are not as robust as HDD especially if they are removed often - the plastic separators will break causing a short.

You could also DD your SD cards image via ssh to eliminate the need to remove the SD card.

sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p2 of=/dev/xxxx bs=512 where xxxx is your backup drive.