On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:57:55PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I'm just going to try and buy another 3TB drive as soon as I can. I may
even make it into a removable thingy. Then I can make backups and just
put it in a outbuilding. By the way, my outbuilding is pretty far
On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote:
I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around to
looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to avoid
USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA can be hotplugged and I
have
a couple of those connections.
I
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote:
I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around to
looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to avoid
USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA can be hotplugged and I have
a couple of those
On 07/01/2014 10:58:45 AM, Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote:
I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around
to
looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to
avoid
USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 11:06:59 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 07/01/2014 10:58:45 AM, Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote:
I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around
to
looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 11:06:59 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 07/01/2014 10:58:45 AM, Dale wrote:
Probably not. All of my external USB3 disks have a separate power
supply.
I only know of 2.5 USB-drivers that are powered via the same USB-cable.
Never seen 3.5 ones that
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 04:21:45 AM Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
root@fireball / # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 6604 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3303.39 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 542 MB in 3.01 seconds = 180.33 MB/sec
root@fireball / #
Try a
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:09 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 06:52:10 AM Mick wrote:
What triggers a relocation? I also have a drive which shows a sector
relocation pending, but for a few days now and after some tests that showed
no errors, it won't
On 01/07/2014 07:52, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Tuesday, July 01, 2014 04:21:45 AM Dale wrote:
I watched the dd process when I was erasing the old drive. I got about
the same results. It started out a little over 200 and went as low as
170 or so close to the end. On average, about what hdparm shows. Close
enough
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 13:05:04 Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
every few days, would it then catch
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 05:44:38 Dale wrote:
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this
going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with
data and test
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 05:44:38 Dale wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of
testing? I realize no one
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 09:42:39 Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jun 2014 05:44:38 Dale wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
every few days, would it then catch a error after a
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of
testing? I
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:44 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm
thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test
every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:57:55PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I'm just going to try and buy another 3TB drive as soon as I can. I may
even make it into a removable thingy. Then I can make backups and just
put it in a outbuilding. By the way, my outbuilding is pretty far from
For such use, I am
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:48:40 +0100, Mick wrote:
I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking
outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the
rest of us. If you use my suggestion there shouldn't be a
problem.
It makes no difference
On Friday 27 Jun 2014 21:54:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote:
I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking
outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the
rest of us. If you use my suggestion there shouldn't be
Mick wrote:
On Friday 27 Jun 2014 21:54:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote:
I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking
outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the
rest of us. If you use my suggestion there
Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this
going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with
data and test the stuffin out of it to make sure?
That is pretty typical. You
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this
going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with
data and test the stuffin out of it to make sure?
That is
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 16:08:52 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm
not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so
impressed. LOL
OK. So, what will send
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote:
You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at
the top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob
produces output.
Or complete the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and revaliases with the info I
have sent you
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 06:56:26 Mick wrote:
Sort out access rights to 0604
Oops! Potentially dangerous typo! Should be: 0640 of course.
--
Regards,
Mick
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote:
David Haller wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote:
Yeah. Oh, and I had a clean smart until a few days ago, luckily I
alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped
from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate
and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is
rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago
was a WD drive. That said,
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:15:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
I like this part:
Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
^ That part right up there. :-D That may be a new thread, if
needed.
My first thought was even Dale can't have problems with that.
I soon
On 26/06/2014 05:54, Dale wrote:
Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate
and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is
rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago
was a WD drive. That said, all the other WD
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:54:35 -0500, Dale wrote:
Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate
and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is
rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago
was a
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:15:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
I like this part:
Extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a Mailhub
^ That part right up there. :-D That may be a new thread, if
needed.
My first thought was even Dale can't have problems with that.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with
was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6
years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after
year - the servers were the nice big ones Dell makes with awesome
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking of something tho. Btrfs. While I have a new drive with no
file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM.
Hmmm. I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14.
I think btrfs is usable, but not
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking of something tho. Btrfs. While I have a new drive with no
file system on it, it's a good time to think on switching from LVM.
Hmmm. I'm currently on gentoo-sources 3.14.
I think btrfs is
On 26/06/2014 13:20, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with
was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6
years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after
year - the servers were the
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On 26/06/2014 13:20, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
My experiences aren't worth much in this case, what I had to deal with
was data center setups where - the power has never gone off for 6
years - the drives never spin down and just keep on turning year after
year -
Mick wrote:
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 06:56:26 Mick wrote:
Sort out access rights to 0604
Oops! Potentially dangerous typo! Should be: 0640 of course.
Picking a short one to reply too.
Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm
not sure what I am going to be
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm
not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so
impressed. LOL
OK. So, what will send me a message now? Do I need to tell it to send
me
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm
not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so
impressed. LOL
OK. So, what will send me a message now? Do I need to tell
Rich Freeman wrote:
And do check on your warranty. You can migrate all your data to the
new drive, and then replace the old one as a backup disk. Either use
it with raid, or as an offline backup. If you want to do raid you can
set up mdadm with a degraded raid1 so that you can copy your data
On 06/26/2014 05:57 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Take care of the environmental factors, and statistics fall in your
favour making the odds good you'll get the life you expect
Yep, but sometimes crap just fails for no reason whatsoever. As an
example, my old house had central A/C and never went
On 06/25/2014 08:54 PM, Dale wrote:
Curious. I hope I don't start a flame war here. I have had WD, Seagate
and I think there is a Samsung here somewhere, may be the one that is
rolling over on its back now. The one drive that failed a few years ago
was a WD drive. That said, all the other
On 25 June 2014 07:05:03 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800
Am Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:09:03 -0500
schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce
On 06/25/2014 06:05 AM, Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo]
J. Roeleveld wrote:
There are some options with smartctl you could try to force the drive
to swap that bad sector with a spare one. A full disk read could also
force that. Eg. Try ' dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null '. But, I usually
order a replacement when Smart tests start throwing errors. I know
thegeezer wrote:
this is pretty bad. enough to really go and get a replacement asap,
and turn that disk off if you can. the self test stops at the first
error it comes to and in this case it is LBA#2905482560 for
calculation of where the error is check out the smartcl [1] site which
will help
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:05:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
That's a 3TB drive. I don't have anything big enough to back it up to.
Then either your data is not important to you or you need to get another
drive ASAP. Meanwhile, you could start backing up the most important data.
Is there anyway to find
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:05:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
That's a 3TB drive. I don't have anything big enough to back it up to.
Then either your data is not important to you or you need to get another
drive ASAP. Meanwhile, you could start backing up the most important data.
I
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
this is pretty bad.
Here is the output:
root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
===
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited warranty
has anyone managed to get anything from hard drive warranties ?
On 06/25/2014 12:55:08 PM, thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited
warranty
has anyone managed to
Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
Drive is ordered. Be here tomorrow. Yay Newegg.
Dale
:-) :-)
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
slightly offtopic - i notice that the drive has a 2year limited
thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
this is pretty bad.
Here is the output:
root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
On 06/25/2014 12:55:08 PM, thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
slightly offtopic - i notice that
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
this says there are 104 pending sectors i.e. bad blocks on the drive
that have not been reallocatd yet
Wonder why it hasn't? Isn't it supposed to do
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them -
alarmingly often, actually.
Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar levels of failure, and
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them -
alarmingly often, actually.
Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar levels of failure, and not just
drives,then I bought a UPS and things got much better. It seems the
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148844
slightly offtopic - i
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:33:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
Typically drives tend to die for me about a year after I buy them -
alarmingly often, actually.
Do you have a UPS? I used to get similar
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
this says there are 104 pending sectors i.e. bad blocks on the drive
that have not been reallocatd yet
Wonder why it hasn't? Isn't it
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:54:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
I'm using lvm here. I also don't have a mail server set up which is why
I run them manually.
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have al mails from cron and
friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
--
Neil Bothwick
Beware! The end is...
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:30 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Is it not true that you cannot run raid on consumer drives because of
timing errors?
Yes, it is not true. :)
I've never had issues running RAID on consumer drives.
Sure, devices certified for RAID might spend less time trying
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to bet this drive is out of warranty. I'm pretty sure it is
over 2 years since I bought it.
Once I replace that drive, I'll dd the thing and see what it does then.
It'll either break it or give me a fresh start to
On Wednesday 25 Jun 2014 17:09:52 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:54:51 -0500, Dale wrote:
I'm using lvm here. I also don't have a mail server set up which is why
I run them manually.
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have al mails from cron and
friends sent to
Am 25.06.2014 09:49, schrieb Dale:
thegeezer wrote:
this is pretty bad. enough to really go and get a replacement asap,
and turn that disk off if you can. the self test stops at the first
error it comes to and in this case it is LBA#2905482560 for
calculation of where the error is check out
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
so without looking that drive up - you are using a desktop part for
non-stop setup?
Honestly, I think it makes far more sense to build a fault-tolerant
setup than to try to avoid faults by spending more on
Am 25.06.2014 19:06, schrieb Rich Freeman:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
so without looking that drive up - you are using a desktop part for
non-stop setup?
Honestly, I think it makes far more sense to build a fault-tolerant
setup
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:44:48 +0100, Mick wrote:
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from cron
and friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
... and when you find out please tell us:
1) What syntax is appropriate to allow the use of mail account passwds
which contain
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 25.06.2014 19:06, schrieb Rich Freeman:
Honestly, I think it makes far more sense to build a fault-tolerant
setup than to try to avoid faults by spending more on the parts. I've
only run desktop hard
On 25/06/2014 17:30, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote:
On 06/25/2014 11:05 AM, Dale wrote:
I got a drive picked out at Newegg.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:
I don't think anybody makes a monitor for btrfs, though my boot is
mirrored across all my btrfs drives using mdadm so a drive failure
should be detected in any case. I need to check up on that, though -
I'd like an email
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote:
You're going to want to cron a 'scrub' and have it email you. There's no
background daemon that I'm aware of to handle this. ZFS just introduced
'zed' and it would be nice if BTRFS would do the same
Actually, I
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so without looking that drive up - you are using a desktop part for
non-stop setup?
If I recall correctly, the last drive that died was a more expensive
type of drive, intended for a server setup. So far, the cheaper
drives are the ones that have lasted until I
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 01:44:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
ANY hard drive can fail the day
after you buy it, a month after you buy it, and so on, though
obviously the probability of a particular drive failing at any point
in time
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:44:48 +0100, Mick wrote:
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from cron
and friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
... and when you find out please tell us:
1) What syntax is appropriate to allow the use of mail account
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What I really need to do, set up a RAID or some other backup method so
that even if this happens again, I don't risk losing anything. Then
again, that will take time as well. Also takes money.
Keep in mind that RAID is more
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:16:17 -0500, Dale wrote:
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from
cron and friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread
going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't
On 26/06/14 06:16, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:44:48 +0100, Mick wrote:
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from cron
and friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
... and when you find out please tell us:
What I really need to do, set up a
Hello,
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote:
thegeezer wrote:
On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote:
Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
I have (had sort of) the same disc, with the same FW.
see the following Seagate web pages:
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en
On 06/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports
that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when
run 24x7.
Anecdotal, but...
In 2008 I bought four 24x7 drives (500GB) and eight regular drives to be
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
What I really need to do, set up a RAID or some other backup method so
that even if this happens again, I don't risk losing anything. Then
again, that will take time as well. Also takes money.
Keep in mind
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm going to bet this drive is out of warranty. I'm pretty sure it is
over 2 years since I bought it.
Once I replace that drive, I'll dd the thing and see what it does then.
It'll either break it or give
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Rich Freeman wrote:
I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too. That would likely be
a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't
bought a backup drive before now either. Plus, something I'd
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread
going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to
my system unless I have to.
Which is why I suggesting something like ssmtp, which you can't call a
server, it just forwards.
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
On 26/06/14 06:16, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:44:48 +0100, Mick wrote:
Install a simple forwarding MTA like ssmtp to have all mails from cron
and friends sent to your ISP mailbox.
... and when you find out please tell us:
What I really
David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote:
Yeah. Oh, and I had a clean smart until a few days ago, luckily I
alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped
from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail Always
17688 Other Seagates (a
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday, June 25, 2014 01:44:23 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
ANY hard drive can fail the day
after you buy it, a month after you buy it, and so on, though
obviously the probability of a particular drive failing at any
Daniel Frey wrote:
On 06/25/2014 10:44 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
Like I said, I'm certainly interested in any actual data that supports
that drives sold to run 24x7 last any longer than desktop drives when
run 24x7.
Anecdotal, but...
In 2008 I bought four 24x7 drives (500GB) and eight
Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Rich Freeman wrote:
I don't have anything on the cloud to backup too. That would likely be
a good idea but I can't afford anything pricey, which is why I hadn't
bought a backup drive before now either.
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 03:15:54 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread
going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to
my system unless I have to.
Which is why I suggesting something like ssmtp,
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA
On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local
build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On 25 June 2014 01:09:03 CEST, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Howdy,
I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this:
root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local
build)
Copyright (C)
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