[lug] Automated USB Drive Backup

[Zan Lynx]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 11:00 -0700, David L. Anselmi wrote:

> You can disable write caching and such so that at least if you pull the 
> plug when it isn't busy it will survive.  If your backups unmount when 
> they're done you only have to worry during that time (or if they fail).

If its a flash RAM drive, then pulling it out during a write operation
might be extra bad.  Depending on the drive design, it might not damage
anything, it might lose an entire flash block of data, or it might make
the whole thing unrecoverable (or require a full format with special
tools)
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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