On 3/4/19 7:37 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 05:06 -0800, Todd Chester via users wrote:
>
> On 2/28/19 4:41 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> I have persistent problems with small USB hard drives that I use for
>> backup. The backup utility is the rsnapshot, which is set up to back up
>> my system incrementally every day starting about 3:00am. The backup
>> fails occasionally; when this happens the drive's file system is usually
>> corrupted, which can be repaired using fsck. So far, there has been no
>> perceptible loss of data
>
> What I have been lately, is building my own with drives
> with Rosewill backup cases (RX304-APU3-35B). I populate
> them with Western Digital drives. Had one Blue drive
> go bad. I have since switched to Red and Black drives
> and haven't had an issue.
Is there any error detection on the USB link between the device being
backed up and the
Rosewill Box + Disk? Or do we just send the bits over the link and hope
for the best?
The disk in the drive tells you good or bad. I believe this
is called CRC, but I may be wrong.