There is nothing pro about my Samsung 850 SSD Pro, it died in less than 6months and I’ll try to get a replacement. I had physical damage to the disk and eventually it stopped being identified by the OS. After accessing my Luks-encrypted LVM volumes I was unable in any way to mount the filesystems or repair them, I even tried using alternate superblocks and read through quite a bit of debug documentation to no avail. I then booted to a Fedora LiveCD to investigate further and hopefully run an xfs_repair. I was unable to read, copy or view data in any way. Looking at logs there were all manner of I/O and disk hardware errors. I first noticed there was an issue with my Fedora desktop when opening the Remmina application, it contained none of my settings, the theme was distorted and something was off. How to setup backups on a schedule via the SpiderOak CLI.How to setup backups on a schedule with the SpiderOak Linux desktop version.How to restore data from SpiderOak backups from a failed device.Experiences in a data loss / restoration scenarios using SpiderOak.I’m going to cover the following items here in hopes it is useful to others. ![]() It works natively on Linux, Windows and OSX and mobile clients. ![]() It also deduplicates all common data across all your devices which can be useful. SpiderOak is a blind (zero knowledge) encrypted cloud backup and file sharing service – only you have access to the encryption keys and it’s encrypted at rest and in transit so SpiderOak itself cannot access your data. Being the first time I’ve needed to restore data with SpiderOak here’s some things I’ve learned and impressions of the service on Linux. Luckily I had SpiderOak backups as my employer offers this as a service to associates. Recently the SSD Operating System disk on my primary work desktop failed without warning and no manner of arcane xfsrepair or xfsdump/xfsrestore chicanery would bring it back.
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