-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At about 04:35 EDT today 2019-10-22 Tuesday I ran 'sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdb'. At 12:48 I ran the command in the next line. The result is below after the next paragraph.
Based on the results below relating to /dev/sdb and the results relating to /dev/sda quoted in my previous email today, I conclude that while smartctl considers my two hard drives three years old and consequently prone to failure -- what else really is new, all devices are prone to failure -- my current backup problems are not related to failure of either or both of these drives. As I stated in my original post, they have been in use for only 1.75 years. I shall consequently continue to examine at my scripts for errors in creating tarballs for my backups. Regards, Ken - --------------------------------------------------- ken@SOL:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-9-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) Device Model: ST2000DM001-1ER164 Serial Number: Z4Z0TKY8 LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0796a3479 Firmware Version: CC25 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Tue Oct 22 12:45:42 2019 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 80) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supporte d. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 219) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x1085) SCT Status supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 90023624 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 096 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 557 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 073 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 24992023 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 3834 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 556 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 0 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 4 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 070 065 045 Old_age Always - 30 (Min/Max 21/31) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 104 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 832 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 030 040 000 Old_age Always - 30 (0 18 0 0 0) 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3733h+04m+36.466s 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 31308850703 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 133591359037 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3830 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. ken@SOL:~$ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQR9YFyM2lJAhDprmoOU2UnM6QmZNwUCXa816gAKCRCU2UnM6QmZ N+GRAJ49DzJwDIA6SlWnmyNBVk1+UUZh8wCdHJhfWS6oChj+SEwtttfuTiiOrwo= =e/7+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----