[voltagex_]

#8.

I'm currently waiting to see what comes back from fsck on a 4TB drive connected to a Raspberry Pi (don't ask). Drive is 390 days old according to SMART and reporting unrecoverable read errors.

Most of the stuff was in other locations but I know there was one repo I was waiting to push... waited too long, I guess.

[Davertron]

I was going to say, if these are in priority order, move #8 to the top if you're not already doing it! That way you get the benefits of it moving forward :)

[voltagex_]

This is going offtopic, but if you're going to do backup/NAS, check your logs! I'm going to see how much I have to learn to set up monitoring on my home network. An error from Windows (coming from Samba) that I dismissed as a Samba problem was actually an early warning of the drive failure.

Edit: ouch.

  root@kiwi:/media/files2# ls -lah
  total 12K
  drwxrwxrwx  3 nobody backup 4.0K Dec 22 22:19 .
  drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root   4.0K Dec 30 20:19 ..
  drwx------ 32 root   root   4.0K Dec 31 00:54 lost+found

[matthewaveryusa]

This was on my todo for years. I never liked the idea of using a cloud solution for privacy and price reasons. I recently bought a QNAP NAS which provides amazing custom backup solutions. I raided the disks, and continuously backup all personal data directly to AWS Glacier, making sure to encrypt it first. Private and very cost effective since the only time I would need to retrieve from glacier would be in case of both local drives failing (theft, fire?) I sleep better at night now.

[dzhiurgis]

Also backup your parents data.

Holidays are almost over and new SSD/W10 install went rogue. Old HDD got somehow damaged so bad sectors appeared. Spent good part of holidays playing with Hirens boot CD, dd and other tools.

[voltagex_]

That was Christmas 2014 for me!

This year they have a Mac and everything is automagically backed up to a USB drive.