On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM home user via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Good morning, > > (background) > * Something went wrong with a back-up to a USB-3.0 stick this past May. > Most everything was recovered, but not everything. I was told that the > stick itself was probably not what failed. There are a few other more > likely causes of the failure, but I cannot diagnose it. One major > possibility is that the desktop on which I was trying to read it damaged > some of the contents of the stick. > Was that "desktop" using Windows? Just inserting a USB key in a Windows system changes something that changes whole drive checksums. I once forgot to disconnect an USB backup drive when updating Windows. The update created a Windows partition. overwriting the original table, so recovering the data would have been a a big project with no guarantee of success. Only view backups read-only (sudo mount -o ro ...). Don't leave backup drives connected when not in use. -- George N. White III
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