How to do backups to an external disk inside emergency mode

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sun Jan 27 23:36:03 UTC 2013


On 01/27/2013 03:20 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I believe what Joe meant was to run a SMART test and see if the drive is
> okay or not.  You can run this test in parallel with other tasks, so you
> could keep the backup running while the drive tests itself for errors.

As it happens, no.  I was only concerned with finding out if the drive 
were currently readable because if it were, his system should have been 
able to mount it.  However, I like your idea, and it can't hurt to find 
out just how good the drive is or isn't.


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