Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-16 Thread Tomas K
A few comments... > However, I have long been impatient with the speed of the Mediasonic; > moving or renaming a file can take over a minute while the drives > whir and the lights dance. Renaming or moving files on the same drive should take fraction of a second regardless of the file size or

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 01:27:31 -0700 Tomas K dijo: >It seems that it would be safer to have the DAS array attached >permanently to your NAS and access it over the network. That is if your >NAS has eSATA port. > >That way it would be permanently attached like internal drives and that >should avoid

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-15 Thread Tomas K
It seems that it would be safer to have the DAS array attached permanently to your NAS and access it over the network. That is if your NAS has eSATA port. That way it would be permanently attached like internal drives and that should avoid these type of synchronization errors - Especially when

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 13:45:14 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ben Koenig wrote: > >> Please copy/paste the following command into your terminal and post >> the output here so that we can offer sensible advice. >> >> ls -l /dev/sd* > >Ben, > > Might lsblk provide John with

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ben Koenig wrote: Please copy/paste the following command into your terminal and post the output here so that we can offer sensible advice. ls -l /dev/sd* Ben, Might lsblk provide John with the same information? Rich ___

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread Ben Koenig
John, Please copy/paste the following command into your terminal and post the output here so that we can offer sensible advice. ls -l /dev/sd* Making sure you know what is attached and mounted to your system should be your first step in a situation like this. --Ben On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: It is not referenced in fstab. Here is fstab: John, That's totally different from any I've seen so I have nothing useful to add. Altering your command because Ubuntu decided some time back to rename /var/log/messages to /var/log/syslog, I get

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 05:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/jjj/Movies >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, >> missing codepage or helper program, or other error > 1)

Re: [PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/jjj/Movies mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, missing codepage or helper program, or other error John, Two questions: 1) What is the reference to that device in

[PLUG] How to restore external drive

2018-10-13 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have a Mediasonic two-bay external enclosure with two hard disks in Raid 0, for a total of 12TB. This is backed up regularly to a 16TB Synology NAS, most recently last night, so if I lose everything on the 12TB Mediasonic I will lose just a few things that I did today - easily replaced. The