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Linux backup of USB drive using rsync hangs
I have a Western Digital My Book 4TB external USB drive.
If I attempt backup using the tar command
tar cvf - . | ( cd $bkdir ; tar xvpf - )
I have no problem performing the backup.
If I attempt the ...
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How to reach the maximum bandwidth on many USB drives?
I have many (~60 at now) external USB drives which I need to occasionally, but regularly, connect to one Linux workstation because I need to run a sanity check program on data saved on them.
I don't ...
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Problems with usb3 attached drive ERROR: Transfer event for disabled endpoint or incorrect stream ring
I have a HP Microserver gen8 that I'm using for testing and some minor backup.
This machine has a debian 9 installation, I'm planning to upgrade it to debian 12 when I will have some time, the machine ...
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Trying to understand SmartCRTL results: Normed value less than the worst value?
Please see the below output of smartctl for external hard drive. For attribute: Offline_Uncorrectable, the current normed-value is less that the worst value.
How is it possible? It should be always ...
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Copying large video files to external hard drive (connected via a SATA III to USB 3.0 hub) universally causes file corruption
The files are perfectly fine on my server's local SSD, but when I try to copy them to the ext4 logical volume I have set up on top of a volume group that contains only this HDD, where the size of the ...
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Linux Internal HDD Cloning/Backup Issue [closed]
I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format. The Windows 8.1 was installed earlier than Linux. But, in terms of disk partitions, between two partitions ...
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External Seagate Ultra Touch HDD lags computer and can't be mounted correctly on Linux or Windows 10
On Windows 10 it at least (sometimes) shows the overall directories on the HDD, but Linux can't even do that anymore.
I'm fairly sure that up until a couple weeks ago my Linux PC could read the drive. ...
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Make docker running from usb storage
I try to store my Docker config, images, containers, etc. on a external storage. Following this tutorial
https://www.howtogeek.com/devops/how-to-store-docker-images-and-containers-on-an-external-drive/...
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Different partitions listed by lsblk and fdisk
I'm having issues mounting an external WD 4TB USB HD. It has two 2GB partitions, one NTFS and the other exfat. This has been my backup disk on a RPI4 and worked well for over 5 years until yesterday ...
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External Hard Disk is not being detected after recent upgrade
I am using Arch Linux and I recently upgraded my machine's kernel to the latest one. Linux 6.2.12-arch1-1 if it matters.
Ever since then my machine is not able to detect the external HDD. I have 2 ...
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Linux claims half full NTFS external drive is out of space
I've got an external 5TB hard drive formatted as NTFS and mounted in Linux.
When I run df I get this info on the drive:
/dev/sdd1 4883735548 2398731656 2485003892 50% /media/me/DRIVE0
I also ...
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How to set APM of a hard drive in Linux command line?
Strange things are happening in my system... I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspberry OS Lite and some external WD HDDs atached to the USB port. I want to change the hard drive APM value so that I can ...
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External Hard Drive disconnects during file transfer on Linux
So, I have this Western Digital 5TB portable drive (Specifically "My Passport" branding) that I have some video recordings on of me playing video games. The thing is that the files are huge (...
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How can I create an external HDD using a dual booted internal HDD?
I had an old laptop that I dual booted with ubuntu and windows 10. So I decided to use its internal hard drive as an external hard drive and bought the enclosure and everything needed.
The problem I ...
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hdparm: Are parameters (like spindown time set using -S) saved on machine or on the hard disk?
Say, I connect my external hard drive to a machine/computer and set the spindown time to 5 seconds using:
hdparm -S1 <disk dir>
I test this setup, and the disk does spin down after it is ...
