From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E5CA13800E for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2C4BE0687; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3909AE05EB for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc4 with SMTP id c4so606603eek.40 for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:57:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=b5YrnFlpYtl6OGin0u430yG5RFfC6iab5OXwJbgH0/o=; b=FmsZn1koBY+ELJSOrF5jSo8x1bL6yRpvibamtCBcTMZYA+ISbc/2Sm0h+zi7dPnNJ/ rHITbbovi3h2RMLIkMrw9vlvV9k2b7KyzcsEGV7FcY+s+kfSolJI3VHvPpM+TH+aI3Km hTwa/CaKb86g8S6Z5DTaXWrTCUqDI5Psda+feG10YXaX6/FkGMAmlBw+bqFWNdGOiytM ItM4+IJgxVU87e89pT9RHWjzYOSMXnM+AZQzsP3TfqXzOZEKiWAdAIJ1jRdk328IVWm5 MQkn8Gko7Sh1Qp5JmKpI1YTplsAylS4HB3neRRogPT0/zxz1hl0Rkjp6CdXs3F7/k/SO qdmg== Received: by 10.14.204.72 with SMTP id g48mr12224006eeo.45.1344247050251; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:57:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g42sm46077775eem.14.2012.08.06.02.57.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 06 Aug 2012 02:57:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:57:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.8-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> <501F9179.8000504@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <501F9179.8000504@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1512346.q8jK2LYSYG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208061057.58051.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 615a2fad-767e-4545-a74c-4221534d909e X-Archives-Hash: bdec289710e7bec718b7da1385ce4bc1 --nextPart1512346.q8jK2LYSYG Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 06 Aug 2012 10:42:17 Dale wrote: > If it has a issue, hopefully > the test will bring that to the front now instead of later. Or it is just going to knacker your drive and make it fail earlier that it= =20 would otherwise (esp if you overheat it)? ha, ha! > P. S. What is a good way to back up something this large BESIDES > another drive the same size or larger? I thought about getting a blue > ray burner but even that will take a lot of media. Another drive is all > I can think of myself. Splitting it? Partimage would do that and so would star/tar for fs level backups. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1512346.q8jK2LYSYG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAflSYACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZlVwCdHygUn7VCCCNcKCCxZN2Eb0Ez WsIAoOkScjP1x027I5onS9gE1A1pDTrY =rB81 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1512346.q8jK2LYSYG--