[clug] S.M.A.R.T message for hd failure

Carlo Hamalainen carlo.hamalainen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 12:22:19 GMT 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 12:42 AM, Peter Barker <pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, steve jenkin wrote:
> > Summary:
> > As another post advised - run the Linux SMART utility to check the drive.
> > Make sure you have second, safe copies of important data.
>
> I'd make that "make sure you have at least three copies of your important
> data".

Unison has saved me quite a few times:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Like rsync, but in both directions and it asks you about conflicts. My
web host (pair.com) run FreeBSD and the Linux binary for Unison runs
with no troubles. Really handy :)

-- 
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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