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Well, even more news. I left it doing a backup last night and those files completed, but when I came in this morning Drive 4 had the amber LED again and this time it was making a clicking noise like the heads were reading and retracting.

Figuring I had nothing to lose I shut it down and restarted it. The log indicated that drive 10018 is failing. Looks like Drive 4 is having problems. The drive has not made those noises since restarting and it's going through the same fix severe errors check that I've done two times before. So far, info log t is giving me the same bad/dup inodes as I've seen before. If I get lucky, I might be able to start backing up more stuff in about 3 hours or so.

Now for a couple of things that puzzle me.

Both evenings when it went down, it was at around 1 or 2 AM. Anyone know if there's any process that runs about that time that could be causing it to flip out? The only thing I see in the log is the extended rights backup and the system configuration backup. My bets are on the extended rights backup since it takes about two hours and starts at 1 AM, whereas the system configuration backup takes no time at all and runs at 12 AM.

The other thing is that I'm not getting a SMART warning for Drive 4 even though it looks like it's starting to fail but I still get the SMART warning for Drive 1 even though it's unplugged. I'm wondering if it's unable to distinguish between drives and just throws that same warning no matter which drive is failing.