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On Monday 06 Aug 2012 10:42:17 Dale wrote: |
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> If it has a issue, hopefully |
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> the test will bring that to the front now instead of later. |
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Or it is just going to knacker your drive and make it fail earlier that it |
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would otherwise (esp if you overheat it)? ha, ha! |
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> P. S. What is a good way to back up something this large BESIDES |
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> another drive the same size or larger? I thought about getting a blue |
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> ray burner but even that will take a lot of media. Another drive is all |
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> I can think of myself. |
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Splitting it? |
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Partimage would do that and so would star/tar for fs level backups. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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