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Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late
Date 2025-08-06 06:37 +0000
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 19:54:56 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Best modern plan = TWO local copies, on different machines/media, and
>    one dup (maybe just the 'important stuff') to 'cloud' storage. Not
>    too expensive. Just automate it all so it works overnight.

We used  portable drives that were off premises. That was part of the 
formal backups the build guy did. Informally everyone checked out the 
entire source tree in Subversion and kept it updated so unless the 
building was nuked there would be a backup. 

For my works in progress I'd have the code on two or three machines plus 
the corporate OneDrive.

My personal projects at home usually are copied to two or three machines. 
I don't bother with the cloud since there's nothing I couldn't recreate. 
Docmentation, SDKs, IDEs and so forth are safely stored wherever I got 
them from in the first place, and probably newer versions to boot.

I do have some mp3s on a WD Passport and assorted thumb drives because no 
way in hell do I want to rip a shelf full of CDs again. At least they're 
easier than cassettes.

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Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-07-31 00:26 +0000
  Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-07-30 23:02 -0400
  Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-07-31 15:21 +0200
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-31 14:39 +0100
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-01 01:08 +0000
      Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:03 +0200
    Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 10:05 +0200
      Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:04 +0200
        Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 14:31 +0200
          Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-01 14:40 +0200
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-01 18:16 +0200
          Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-08-01 19:29 +0000
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 02:15 -0400
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-02 10:05 +0200
          Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-01 23:55 +0000
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-02 03:39 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-02 03:24 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 02:04 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-02 13:59 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 03:03 -0400
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-05 19:20 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 23:04 +0100
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-05 19:54 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-06 06:37 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-06 04:03 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-07 07:14 +1000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-06 22:16 -0400
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-07 18:20 +0100
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-07 18:22 +0100
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-08 09:10 +1000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-06 07:39 -0700
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-08-11 19:40 +0000
            Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-02 10:07 +0200
              Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-02 23:32 +0000
                Re: Linux PC Acting Up? How To Check For Bad Blocks On A Hard Drive - Before It's Too Late c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-02 21:36 -0400

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