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OK
Got bored with badblocks - 3% in 2 hours!!!
And the disk now mounts!!
Disk Utility SMART shows Re-allocated Sector count at 237, and
Current Pending Sector count at 1023 though, so probably on it's
way out.
Many thanks for help.
Phil
On 19/07/13 10:48, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Philip Whateley wrote:
I would prefer to fund the British Economy
- do you know of a British
equivalent of Spideroak?
I know plenty UK hosting companies - myself included (so I may
appear biased)
Any VPS will give you a shell - with a shell you have ssh, with
ssh you have rsync.
I do conceede that remote disk space is expensive though, but how
much is your data worth?
Bytemarks BigV system appears to be reasonable at an extra £2 a
month for 50GB.
http://www.bigv.io/prices
But find someone else in the same boat and swap drives and agree
to do your backups overnight...
Hm. "hosted usb drive" - now there's an idea ...
The real issue that we have with remote data is getting it back -
we can dribble it up overnight, using rsync so copy differences,
but one day, a year later, you find that you have 5000GB of data
stored remotely and you need to restore the lot... As an
excercise, work out how long it would take to copy 500GB of data
down a 10Mb ADSL line... (and that's without worying about data
caps on your sensible ADSL service)
This happened to a client of mine - fortunately they remote server
storing it all was in my office, so the restore consisted of
copying the data to a spare server, and driving over to their
office with the spare server to replace the one that they'd
managed to destroy.
Gordon
Phil
On 19/07/13 10:14, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013, Philip Whateley
wrote:
Thanks Gordon.
That's roughly what I thought.
There isn't much on the drive of value that I don't have
elsewhere,
other than backups that haven't worked, so not a problem in
binning it.
I'm using NTFS purely because that is what it was formatted
as
originally. I tried re-formatting to ext3 and couldn't work
out how to
mount it so reformatted back using a windows machine.
Restore was working with a previous version of sbackup -
stupidly I
assumed that if a beta version worked then a release version
would too,
but I'll test properly next time!!!
So the next question is, given that I probably only need to
back up
~50Gb, would I be better paying $100 / year for 100Gb
off-site back-up
with Spideroak?
$100? You're happy to fund the US economy then? Why not fund
the British?
Gordon
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