On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 08:17:39PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, 2004-Dec-18 02:03:09 -0500, Gary Corcoran wrote: > > I suppose it > >is possible these errors may have shown up more than a week or > >two ago, because my windows machines, reaching them via samba, > >haven't shown any problems until today, and of course with almost > >750GB of data, it's not all accessed over a short time span. > > My approach to this is to add a line similar to > dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=32k > for each disk into /etc/daily.local (or /etc/weekly.local or whatever). > This ensures that the disks are readable on a regular basis.
Regular reading of every file is part of what I call backup. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
