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. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
