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Old 12-12-2006, 11:04 PM
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My question is - what is smartd and how do I use it under Fedora Core Linux 6? Is it for backing up hard disk or what

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smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.

http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartd.8.html
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Just quite note - smartd is for monitoring hard disk and not for backing up data. You still need to backup data.

You can see installation information here
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/monito...g-systems.html

Linux backup information here
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/perfor...ng-system.html
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