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Nothing can ever go wrong with my computer and I will never lose my data. <Sarcasm>Right</sarcasm>.
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Your host must have a mail transfer agent (MTA) such as SendMail installed and running. The /etc/aliases file must have an entry to send root’s email to your email address.
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Understanding SMART Reports, https://lime-technology.com/wiki/Understanding_SMART_Reports
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Wikipedia, SMART, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART
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BackBlaze, Web site, “What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives,” https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/
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Wikipedia, rsync, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync
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Wikipedia, Hard Links, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link
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Both, David, DataBook for Linux, Using hard and soft links in the Linux filesystem, http://www.linux-databook.info/?page_id=5087
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Both, D. (2018). Back Up Everything – Frequently. In: The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3730-4_21
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