Mark Carroll's Journal

The relevant computers are very poorly located for trying to run a long cable. (-: I may yet resort to lightly taping to the ceiling, we'll see.

Yeah, sneaker-net is how I've done offsites for years. The backups are apparently broadly working, it's just that the past year is the first I've really run into I/O errors at all with them: even, say, fifteen years ago when my backups were still small enough to fit onto DVD-RAM cartridges they remained solid. (I miss pelican.cam.ac.uk!)

So, you expect regular SATA drives plugged into a USB caddy to be rather more reliable than the drives that come already sealed into a little portable case with a USB port?