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by voltagex_ 3828 days ago
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