Re: [linux] dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
I have done RAID5 with this mobo before - and note this is Linux md RAID not mobo fake raid /boot is XFS on top of its own RAID1 (small partition on both drives) /boot/efi is vfat on top of its own RAID1 (ditto) The rest of the drive is a large partition on each drive with RAID1, then LVM, then m

Re: [linux] Re: dealing with bad blocks?

2019-01-11 Thread Raj
yes, smartctl should give you more a lot more information. I would be curious to see what smartctl reports. On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:34 PM Alan McKay wrote: > > Well looks like I got lucky with which one I took out first - the behavior > went away > > They are Kingston drives and it looks lik

[linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Robert Venczel
Good morning, I would like to encrypt my backup files stored on an external drive. Which software would you suggest I should use for it? Thank you. Robert

Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread ProfJCNash
For FILES (i.e., individually) I use ccrypt by Peter Selinger. I've met and chatted with him, so that is a plus for me. If you are backing up a lot of small files, I'd zip/tarball them first. And I like to set up a script for regular things. For less structured processes, other folk probably have

Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Scott Murphy
Did you mean individual file encryption or entire drive? > On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Robert Venczel > wrote: > > Good morning, > > I would like to encrypt my backup files stored on an external drive. Which > software would you suggest I should use for it? Thank you. > > Robert > >

RE: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Robert Venczel
Thank you for your suggestions, Dianne and JN. Scott, I would like to encrypt only the files I'm backing up to the external hard drive, the rest of the latter would remain unencrypted. Robert From: Scott Murphy [mailto:scott.mur...@arrow-eye.com] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 11:22 AM To: Robe

Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Dianne Skoll
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:06:43 + Robert Venczel wrote: > I would like to encrypt my backup files stored on an external > drive. Which software would you suggest I should use for it? Thank > you. There are many options. I use "encfs" which is pretty simple to use and encrypts each file individ

Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Alex Pilon
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 04:27:13PM +, Robert Venczel wrote: > Thank you for your suggestions, Dianne and JN. > > Scott, I would like to encrypt only the files I'm backing up to the > external hard drive, the rest of the latter would remain unencrypted. Don't do manual encryption using GPG, cc

Re: [linux] Encryption software for external hard drive

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
On 2019-01-11 11:28, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:06:43 + > Robert Venczel wrote: > > > I would like to encrypt my backup files stored on an external > > drive. Which software would you suggest I should use for it? Thank > > you. > > There are many options. I use "encfs" whi