I use FreeFileSync (FFS) to backup my data drives (files get copied and deleted on the backup drives as needed to make them identical to the data drives in the computer). I normally manually TRIM the laptop drives and their external USB backup drives once a week. I plug all four external USB backup drives in at the same time and have an alias that will TRIM all of the drives one after the other until done. After TRIMming, I safely remove the backup drives without a problem.
I update the laptop data drives/partitions as needed (one data drive in the laptop has two 4TB partitions and the other two are 4 TB drives). The main data drive's external backup drive gets updated at the end of the day (sooner if I add, change, move, etc. a lot of data during the day). The other data drives rarely get written to so I update their backup drives as needed or monthly, whichever comes first.
I treat the desktop data drives (kept in USB enclosures) the same as the laptop data drives and update them as needed. I also TRIM the desktop data drives once a week. If I've added, changed, etc. a lot of data to the laptop data drives, I will update the backups, using FFS, before TRIMing. Usually, I can safely remove the drives without any trouble.
The backup drives for the desktop data drives get the same treatment however I often run into problems when trying to safely remove them after updating and TRIMming. When I right click on the left panel of a drive's open window and click on safely remove, I often will get an error message saying the drive can't be stopped and all four of the external drives will be unmounted and have to be remounted and, after waiting a while, try again. Sometimes, waiting awhile after TRIMming before trying to safely removing them will avoid the problem. Other times, I have shutdown the computer, then unplug the drives.
This is driving me insane(r). Does anyone have any idea why this happens and what can I do avoid the problem?
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jeannie@Laptop1:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
Host: Laptop1 Kernel: 5.4.0-81-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: System76 product: Serval v: serw11-b serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: System76 model: Serval v: serw11-b serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.05.25-1 date: 07/10/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 57.9 Wh condition: 80.7/79.9 Wh (101%) volts: 15.9/14.8
model: Notebook BAT type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Unknown
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse M525
serial: <filter> charge: 100% rechargeable: yes status: Discharging
CPU:
Topology: 8-Core model: Intel Core i7-9700K bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Kaby Lake rev: D L2 cache: 12.0 MiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 57600
Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800
3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: nvidia v: 460.39
bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1f51
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~144Hz
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.39
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 chip ID: 8086:a2f0
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 01:00.1 chip ID: 10de:10f9
Device-3: N/A type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
bus ID: 1-5.4.3:9 chip ID: 21b4:0082 serial: <filter>
Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-81-generic
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E2500 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 6e:00.0
chip ID: 1969:e0b1
IF: enp110s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless-AC 9260 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: d000
bus ID: 71:00.0 chip ID: 8086:2526
IF: wlp113s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 14.73 TiB used: 7.47 TiB (50.7%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 PRO 512GB
size: 476.94 GiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXP7
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 model: Sabrent Rocket Q size: 7.28 TiB speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: RKT30Q.2 scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 4TB size: 3.73 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdb vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 PRO 4TB size: 3.73 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 452.31 GiB used: 27.40 GiB (6.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
ID-2: swap-1 size: 15.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 46 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 1331
Repos:
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
1: deb http://liveusb.info/multisystem/depot all main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://mirror.os6.org/linuxmint.com/packages tricia main upstream import backport
2: deb http://mirror.enzu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://mirror.enzu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://mirror.enzu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oguzhaninan-stacer-bionic.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/system76-dev-stable-bionic.list
1: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/system76-dev/stable/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teejeetech-aptik.list
1: deb https://packages.teejeetech.com/aptik/S7tBVjLBzw stable main
Info:
Processes: 293 Uptime: 33m Memory: 15.46 GiB used: 1.40 GiB (9.1%)
Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash
v: 4.4.20 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32