Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/1/19 5:00 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 11:46 +, Tim Waugh wrote: Have you looked at the SMART data for these drives? It might be worth paying particular attention to the "Reallocation Event Count" and "Reallocated Sectors Count". If the first is larger than the sec

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 3/2/19 9:57 AM, Tim via users wrote: > > I prefer NAS (doing the same kind of thing over the LAN). Indeed.  Unless one has a need to carry around the drive I wouldn't use a USB enclosure.  And, if I did have to carry around a drive, I'd use a SSD and not a HDD. I've had a 2-Bay NAS for home

Re: Apache and RewriteRule

2019-03-01 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi, Alex wrote: >>> I believe you want to use something like: >>> >>> RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^option=login$ >>> RewriteRule ^/index.php?$ /register [R=301,L] >>> >>> It's been a while since I've done this, so I'm not sure >>> whether the "?" after index.php is matched. You ma

Re: Apache and RewriteRule

2019-03-01 Thread Alex
Hi, > >> RewriteRule ^/index.php\?option=login$ /register [R=301,L] > > > >I think you may be caught by RewriteRule not matching > >against query strings. Per the docs: > > > >What is matched? > >... > >* If you wish to match against the hostname, port, > >

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Tim via users
On 2/3/19 11:32 am, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: The drives are connected directly to the computer via a USB link. I have suspected that the problem is related to my system, however Todd Chester in another reply to my posting says that these cheap drives are not to be trusted. I'm going to take his

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 05:06 -0800, Todd Chester via users wrote: > > On 2/28/19 4:41 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I have persistent problems with small USB hard drives that I use for > > backup. > > What I have been lately, is building my own with drives > with Rosewill backup cases (RX304-AP

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 07:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Jonathan Ryshpan writes: > > > The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said that > > the > > drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since it was still > > > > under warranty. It's not exactly

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 11:46 +, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 00:42, Jonathan Ryshpan > wrote: > > The drive also produces an occasional beeping sound: pitch about > > 340 cps (my best guess using a tuner), lasting about 250 msec. The > > beeps happen when the drive is in use, parti

Re: Apache and RewriteRule

2019-03-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 01Mar2019 12:51, todd zullinger wrote: Alex wrote: I've already asked this question on a number of apache forums and have received no response. I hoped someone here could help me understand why this rewriterule doesn't work: RewriteRule ^/index.php\?option=login$ /register [R=3

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 3/1/19 6:07 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote: I've noticed three consistent theme over the years: o Tape is still*expensive* to set up and maintain. o Clients hate tape. o Clients won't change tapes or disks. AMEN! Consultants hate tapes too. And they are slower than the dickens trying to r

Re: Apache and RewriteRule

2019-03-01 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi, Alex wrote: > I've already asked this question on a number of apache forums and have > received no response. I hoped someone here could help me understand > why this rewriterule doesn't work: > > RewriteRule ^/index.php\?option=login$ /register [R=301,L] I think you may be caugh

Apache and RewriteRule

2019-03-01 Thread Alex
Hi all, I've already asked this question on a number of apache forums and have received no response. I hoped someone here could help me understand why this rewriterule doesn't work: RewriteRule ^/index.php\?option=login$ /register [R=301,L] This is on a joomla-3.9 system running on

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:06:38AM -0800, Community support for Fedora users wrote: > I have noticed that my customers who go out and buy external > USB mechanical drive drives for backup never have any > "last". They always go bad. Some so bad that they hang > the USB port and the computer won'

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Todd Chester via users
On 2/28/19 4:41 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: I have persistent problems with small USB hard drives that I use for backup. The backup utility is the rsnapshot, which is set up to back up my system incrementally every day starting about 3:00am. The backup fails occasionally; when this happens th

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Jonathan Ryshpan writes: The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said that the drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since it was still under warranty. It's not exactly new by refurbished. It started to beep after being used for about 4 days. Doe

Re: (OT) Beeping drives used for backup

2019-03-01 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 00:42, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The drive also produces an occasional beeping sound: pitch about 340 cps > (my best guess using a tuner), lasting about 250 msec. The beeps happen > when the drive is in use, particularly when it's busy, and never when the > drive is starting