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  • Re: Another Droid is offline

    From Avon@21:1/101 to Gamgee on Sun Apr 17 11:14:28 2022
    On 06 Mar 2022 at 09:57a, Gamgee pondered and said...


    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    In time I need to suss this as well.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to xqtr on Sun Apr 17 11:21:52 2022
    On 11 Mar 2022 at 09:55p, xqtr pondered and said...

    I did exactly that :) I am using a cheap Kingston SSD, but i hope it
    will last longer than any SDCARD.

    The BBS is online again :)

    Thank you for the suggestion.

    welcome back :)

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Avon on Sat Apr 16 19:37:00 2022
    Avon wrote to Gamgee <=-

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    In time I need to suss this as well.

    It's pretty easy, and there are several easily found tutorials on the subject now. Really works well.



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  • From xqtr@21:2/150 to All on Sun Mar 6 02:52:18 2022
    The SDCARD on the RPi hosting the BBS has corrupted again, so the BBS is down for the time being. It's the second time that is happening in a short while, so i am thinking of using an old netbook i have, for the BBS.

    So it may take a while to get the BBS online again, because of other things too, but eventually i will manage to get it online.

    In the mean time, i will visit more BBSes ;)

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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to xqtr on Sun Mar 6 09:57:00 2022
    xqtr wrote to All <=-

    The SDCARD on the RPi hosting the BBS has corrupted again, so the
    BBS is down for the time being. It's the second time that is
    happening in a short while, so i am thinking of using an old
    netbook i have, for the BBS.

    So it may take a while to get the BBS online again, because of
    other things too, but eventually i will manage to get it online.

    In the mean time, i will visit more BBSes ;)

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to xqtr on Sun Mar 6 11:22:18 2022
    On 06 Mar 2022, Gamgee said the following...

    The SDCARD on the RPi hosting the BBS has corrupted again, so the
    BBS is down for the time being.

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    This.

    I boot from a 250GB "PiDrive" on my Pi 4, much better performance and more reliable than an SD card. Granted this PiDrive is spinning, if it ever starts to go I'd move to a SSD.


    Jay

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  • From fang-castro@21:3/112 to xqtr on Sun Mar 6 18:44:08 2022
    On 06 Mar 2022, xqtr said the following...

    So it may take a while to get the BBS online again, because of other things too, but eventually i will manage to get it online.

    In the mean time, i will visit more BBSes ;)

    upload all your mods here ;)

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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to xqtr on Mon Mar 7 14:10:14 2022
    Hello xqtr!

    On 06 Mar 2022, xqtr said the following...
    The SDCARD on the RPi hosting the BBS has corrupted again, so the BBS is down for the time being. It's the second time that is happening in a
    short while, so i am thinking of using an old netbook i have, for the
    BBS.

    Hoping you'll manage to restore things from backup or similar! I believe there was some discussion previously regarding possible ways to increase the life span of SD cards, but it is a recurring issue to many, it seems...

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Gamgee on Tue Mar 8 12:20:00 2022
    On 03-06-22 09:57, Gamgee wrote to xqtr <=-

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    I've kept my SD card, but I mount it read only, and all of the BBS stuff runs on a SSD. If the SD dies, it's easily restored by writing the backup to a new SD card and swapping over.


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Vk3jed on Mon Mar 7 20:06:00 2022
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 03-06-22 09:57, Gamgee wrote to xqtr <=-

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    I've kept my SD card, but I mount it read only, and all of the
    BBS stuff runs on a SSD. If the SD dies, it's easily restored by
    writing the backup to a new SD card and swapping over.

    A reasonable workaround, but why not eliminate the SD completely, and
    boot/run only on the SSD... ?



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Gamgee on Tue Mar 8 13:56:00 2022
    On 03-07-22 20:06, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I've kept my SD card, but I mount it read only, and all of the
    BBS stuff runs on a SSD. If the SD dies, it's easily restored by
    writing the backup to a new SD card and swapping over.

    A reasonable workaround, but why not eliminate the SD completely, and boot/run only on the SSD... ?

    I could, but I have found advantages to this separation, namely that backups (especially of the OS itself) are easier in some ways.


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Vk3jed on Tue Mar 8 07:36:00 2022
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    On 03-07-22 20:06, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I've kept my SD card, but I mount it read only, and all of the
    BBS stuff runs on a SSD. If the SD dies, it's easily restored by
    writing the backup to a new SD card and swapping over.

    A reasonable workaround, but why not eliminate the SD completely, and boot/run only on the SSD... ?

    I could, but I have found advantages to this separation, namely
    that backups (especially of the OS itself) are easier in some
    ways.

    Hmmmm... OK. If it works for you, sounds good! Cheers.



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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Gamgee on Fri Mar 11 21:21:00 2022
    On 03-08-22 07:36, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    I could, but I have found advantages to this separation, namely
    that backups (especially of the OS itself) are easier in some
    ways.

    Hmmmm... OK. If it works for you, sounds good! Cheers.

    More than one way to skin a cat :)


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to Vk3jed on Fri Mar 11 07:21:00 2022
    Vk3jed wrote to Gamgee <=-

    I could, but I have found advantages to this separation, namely
    that backups (especially of the OS itself) are easier in some
    ways.

    Hmmmm... OK. If it works for you, sounds good! Cheers.

    More than one way to skin a cat :)

    Absolutely! If we were all the same, things would be exceedingly
    boring! ;-)



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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to Gamgee on Fri Mar 11 21:55:14 2022
    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    I did exactly that :) I am using a cheap Kingston SSD, but i hope it will last longer than any SDCARD.

    The BBS is online again :)

    Thank you for the suggestion.

    .
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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to Zip on Fri Mar 11 21:57:34 2022
    Hoping you'll manage to restore things from backup or similar! I believe therewas some discussion previously regarding possible ways to increase the lifespan of SD cards, but it is a recurring issue to many, it
    seems...

    I always have a backup. The last one was some days old, so only a few stuff got lost, but i can retrieve them.

    Thankfully the 3B(+) can boot from USB, so i purchased an external SSD and... bye bye... SDCARDS... :)

    .
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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to xqtr on Sat Mar 12 07:05:22 2022
    Hello xqtr!

    On 11 Mar 2022, xqtr said the following...
    I always have a backup. The last one was some days old, so only a few stuff got lost, but i can retrieve them.

    That's great!

    Thankfully the 3B(+) can boot from USB, so i purchased an external SSD and... bye bye... SDCARDS... :)

    :-D

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to Gamgee on Sat Mar 12 19:29:00 2022
    On 03-11-22 07:21, Gamgee wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    More than one way to skin a cat :)

    Absolutely! If we were all the same, things would be exceedingly
    boring! ;-)

    Very true! :)

    ... Pity the poor corpuscle, for he labours in vein.

    Haha, very true. :)


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  • From Gamgee@21:2/138 to xqtr on Sat Mar 12 08:54:00 2022
    xqtr wrote to Gamgee <=-

    If that RPi is a model 3B or higher, you can configure it to boot from
    an external (USB-attached) hard drive (or SSD). No SD card required,
    and no SD card to fail.

    I did exactly that :) I am using a cheap Kingston SSD, but i hope
    it will last longer than any SDCARD.

    The BBS is online again :)

    Thank you for the suggestion.

    Excellent! Glad you got it working.



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