On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 10:01:26AM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > Am Montag, 2. Juli 2018 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > > After upgrading my server to Ascii (which I did successfully using the > > instructions in > > https://devuan.org/os/documentation/dev1fanboy/upgrade-to-ascii although > > it did not go flawlessly I noticed that it was making a regular, > > repeated click-click noise, a pair of clicks about every 1.1 second. > > > > Later, I noticed its hard-disk-in-use light blinking at the same time as > > the noise. > > > > I conclude that something in the system is using the hard drive every > > 1.1 seconds, night and day. > > > > Any ideas for tracking down what is doing this? > > In earlier days this was the "click of death". Maybe it would be a good idea > to look at the smart values ... and you sure have a backup, don't you?
Against hardware failures, yes. A pure redundancy RAID. Against other failures, I occasionaly use rdiffbackup. -- hendrik > > Nik > > > > > -- hendrik > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > > > > -- > Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing > with the NSA, CIA ... > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
