About a month ago Manjaro show warning message after boot, that the old HDD that I mounted it as /Backup for Timeshift backup is damage and will failed soon.
Last night I’ve tried unmount the disk in “Disk manager” after that I still can use it like normal until this morning it’s show that message and won’t boot.
How can I fix this?
Do I need to buy a new HDD just for replace the /Backup?
I know, let’s use it for another month until it fails.
Ok. Disk failed now - do I need to buy a new HDD for /backup?
No, get one for free! Or just don’t bother backing up!
Well, IMO, assuming these devices are internal - I would definitely go with a 256GB SSD for system and the biggest HDD I could afford for storage and backup.
I’m not familiar with this scenario (DEPEND) for /Backup but I’d boot from USB and find a way to fix that.
I’m guessing it’s supposed to be a system that operates on a single disk - for external backups it’s not a good idea to use a FAILING disk, which is also a single point of failure for the main disk, as a backup disk.
This took quite a long time to write, because I find it hard to type with my eyes streaming with tears whilst laughing until my stomach hurts.
I know, let’s use it for another month until it fails.
yes, my bad. I ignored it because the whole disk is just for /Backup and I don’t think it can cause this much trouble and I use this because it’s just laying around
I use another SSD for /root and another SATA disk for /home.
Yeah, at least you should be able to copy the backup data on another disk. At this moment it was just a filesystem corruption. Without information, I would say there are no more sectors available for relocation if physical damage happens or it is just a false positive because smart data is not readable due disabled at the BIOS/UEFI.
To run smartctl you need to install smartmontools.
Thank you for your support.
Can I ask a little more question, if I get the new drive to replace this one, what I have to do is plug in, format and mount it as /Backup, am I correct?