Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 02:34:55 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>> Even if I build a NAS setup, I still need a backup arrangement.  Even if
>> I have a RAID setup, still need backups.  It gets complicated for sure. 
>> Sort of expensive too.  Just imagine if my DSL was 10 times faster. 
>> O_O  I'd need to order drives by the case.
> Not necessarily, if the files are going to remain available online, you
> only need to back up the URLs. Downloading again could well be faster
> than restoring from backups.
>
>


That's the thing, some I have are no longer available anywhere that I
can find.  Even youtube deletes videos with their censorship not because
of copyright but because they don't like the content.  Anytime I find a
good video that I think may be useful later, I download it so that I
have it.  For the most part, it's a good point.  Thing is, my DSL is far
slower than any drive I have, even if it was a USB drive using USB1
speeds.  Downloading is the best way to insure I can watch a video later. 

Of course, videos aren't the only thing I don't want to lose.  I have a
lot of things I don't want to get away from me.  As we know, the more
copies in different locations the safer it is.  I wish I could use a
cloud account but as slow as my download is, upload is even slower, as
usual. 

That said, I'm glad to have the info I have stored here.  I'm just
trying to make sure it doesn't get away from me. 

I wish your way could work tho. 

Dale

:-)  :-)