Adam Hardy wrote at about 22:25:31 +0100 on Thursday, October 20, 2022: > Looking through those logs for anything at the time of the modification > timestamp on the backuppc xferlog, I can see this one line which > appears about 25 mins after the backup fails: > > Oct 17 16:13:48 localhost smartd[1302]: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 1 > Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > > The target USB drive is /dev/sdb1. > > But as I said, I scanned the drive and it didn't log any errors. Is > that useful info? >
As others have advised, USB drives are not very reliable for critical storage needs like backup. It's not particularly surprising that issues could occur with large file reads/writes like you have with your 2TB of video. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
