Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman 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: 6 Aug 2025 06:37:45 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <106ed70$3g63g$1@dont-email.me> <106hsfk$bt9r$1@news1.tnib.de> <106ic3q$d6ma$1@news1.tnib.de> <106jk5i$nd9d$3@dont-email.me> <7r60mlx3b.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <106tv64$30re5$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HMFjix7bhempZJABnLb6jw2IzP40NGnFkxxPkftPGJfjUAdkPo Cancel-Lock: sha1:Sj639qBwsISNbCU7kZqpjIKMyew= sha256:+is15Caefr/RXYrl5MUqnOhaRjw91ARTl8eKSlG9h9Y= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70437 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.