Small business backups solutions?

amc acrossonlnx at comcast.net
Tue Feb 5 22:14:05 EST 2008


sounds good. I installed rockbox on my iPod and love it. I thought I missed 
the last months meeting due to the snow storm. I am glad its been 
rescheduled.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>
To: "Greater NH Linux User Group" <gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: Small business backups solutions?


> On Feb 5, 2008 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>> e.SATA lets you use S.M.A.R.T so you can know if a drive is ailing.
>
>  s/can/might/
>
>  I've discovered SMART isn't always that smart.  I've had drives
> which were actively returning media errors to the host adapter, and
> were then unable to complete the smartctl tests successfully, still
> report their overall SMART health status as good.  I imagine this
> varies with manufacturer/drive/firmware/weather/etc.
>
>  Just an FYI.  Better to have SMART than not, for sure.
>
> -- Ben
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