Re: USB disks dropping off-line

2019-01-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 9:12 AM Barney Wolff wrote: > I've had what may be the same problem for years, with a USB3 disk, on both > 10-stable and 12.0-release. I've never found a cause, though power gitches > might be responsible. As a pragmatic fix I have the backup disk as a zpool > and run a

Re: USB disks dropping off-line

2019-01-12 Thread Eugene Grosbein
13.01.2019 0:12, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:31:55PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Que Twilight Zone theme. For your consideration: This started in December >> when I was running 11.2-STABLE. Starting in December, when I try to backup >> my laptop to a USB drive, it

Re: USB disks dropping off-line

2019-01-12 Thread Barney Wolff
I've had what may be the same problem for years, with a USB3 disk, on both 10-stable and 12.0-release. I've never found a cause, though power gitches might be responsible. As a pragmatic fix I have the backup disk as a zpool and run a daemon that simply does a zpool clear if it finds the pool

USB disks dropping off-line

2019-01-11 Thread Kevin Oberman
Que Twilight Zone theme. For your consideration: This started in December when I was running 11.2-STABLE. Starting in December, when I try to backup my laptop to a USB drive, it periodically dropped off-line (disconnected) and immediately reconnected. This was originally using rsync. It seemed