[Discuss] Recovering a corrupted usb hard drive with XFS

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On 5/15/24 15:44, John Abreau wrote:
> my other disks were close
> to full when I purchased the 18TB disk. To back it up, I'd need to purchase
> yet another disk

Indeed.

I once heard as a metaphor* that a circus needs at least two elephants, 
because if one dies, it will require the second elephant haul away the 
first one. You have only one elephant.


I'm so old that 18TB seems big to me. That's so much data that backing 
it up by ANY means is very non-trivial. Even if the disk could spit data 
at the maximum "super speed" of USB 3.0, isn't that still something like 
10-hours just to fit so much data through the wire?


-kb, the Kent who points out that circuses seem to be giving up on 
elephants.


* It wasn't about disks when I first heard it, it was used to illustrate 
a truth of nuclear power plants. They also come in large increments. And 
are (almost?) always built in sets of two, or more.