On 8/21/2025 8:20 PM, Tim via users wrote:
On Thu, 2025-08-21 at 16:15 -0600, home user via users wrote:
* Something went wrong with a back-up to a USB-3.0 stick this past May.
Most everything was recovered, but not everything. I was told that the
stick itself was probably not what failed. There are a few other more
likely causes of the failure, but I cannot diagnose it.
I would never use one of them for backups. They fail from
frequent/heavy use, static electricity zaps, and are so easily lost.
I favoured a NAS device connected via ethernet.
It's easily accessible by all PCs on the same network (no carting a
thing from PC 1, to PC 2, to PC 3, etc).
Ethernet has transmission error handling that USB just seems to gloss
over.
You could set up dual-access levels. The backup admin has read-write,
but the casual user only has read-only access (allowing them to safely
retrieve a replacement for a file they just locally deleted).
Some NASs come with backup features built in. They appear on a network
as a device that Apple's own (Time Machine) backup routines can look
for and use. Likewise with Window's own backup thingy that I can't
recall the name for.
I had one desktop only. A semi-annual OS upgrade pretty much destroyed
the OS. Subsequent attempts to re-install, then install, the OS wiped
out the rest of the hard drive. A local friend gave me a used desktop
(windows-10) to use until I can get a new desktop. It was that
windows-10 desktop that (probably) slaughtered the final back-up from
the Fedora desktop. Once I get that new desktop, it will be the only
one I have. I do not understand how what you're suggesting would help.
Bottom line, I need the back-ups to be to removable media.
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