10-10-2017, 11:31 AM
Thanks, Trinidad.
Some year ago I used to do this kind of thing for a living (just never on Linux or a *nix system). Out of practice is all (I hope!).
OK. For the benefit of anyone else should this arise.
Just successfully backup up to a third USB stick today - again, identical make and model and again, on the physical USB port I tried yesterday. I've had no joy Googling the problem yet.
Since these are daily backups, and I will be rotating between two physical laptops once per month, it may take me a while to establish which combinations of physical laptop, physical USB port and physical USB stick work - and which don't. It could be an intermittent problem, or it could be the physical port on which it failed previously (or possibly a USB extension cable, though this works fine on Windows 7 and 10).
I'll report back on this thread whether it continues to work (in which case I'm thinking a dodgy USB port), or whether it recurs on the second USB port and/or other laptop(s), in which case it's some kind of intermittent problem. In the latter case, if I should find a solution myself meantime, I will also post it back here.
But for now, I think I need to carry on doind the daily backups in the same way on the same port and see what happens...
Thanks for your help so far.
Some year ago I used to do this kind of thing for a living (just never on Linux or a *nix system). Out of practice is all (I hope!).
OK. For the benefit of anyone else should this arise.
Just successfully backup up to a third USB stick today - again, identical make and model and again, on the physical USB port I tried yesterday. I've had no joy Googling the problem yet.
Since these are daily backups, and I will be rotating between two physical laptops once per month, it may take me a while to establish which combinations of physical laptop, physical USB port and physical USB stick work - and which don't. It could be an intermittent problem, or it could be the physical port on which it failed previously (or possibly a USB extension cable, though this works fine on Windows 7 and 10).
I'll report back on this thread whether it continues to work (in which case I'm thinking a dodgy USB port), or whether it recurs on the second USB port and/or other laptop(s), in which case it's some kind of intermittent problem. In the latter case, if I should find a solution myself meantime, I will also post it back here.
But for now, I think I need to carry on doind the daily backups in the same way on the same port and see what happens...
Thanks for your help so far.
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