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Once a month or so, I back up the SSD (Solid State Drive) on my PC. I do both a clone backup and an incremental backup. One clone is saved to another SSD, while a second is saved to a SATA connected drive. The incremental backups are saved to two separate SATA drives.

Why two backups for both the clone and incremental backups, you ask? Redundancy is my answer. Just in case things go really wrong! Yes, I also have an automatic cloud clone and incremental backup.

Anyway, this past month, I was doing a clone backup to the SATA drive. As you can imagine, it takes some time because the drive is nowhere near as fast as an SSD.

Partway through the backup, I needed my PC, and I needed it NOW! As the drive clones from one to another, a progress window appears with a Cancel button. I'd never used the Cancel option before, but this time I decided to give it a try. I cancelled the clone to the SATA drive, everything seemed to go well, and I was able to use my PC for whatever I needed.

The next time I started my PC, a message popped up informing me that drive H was being repaired! There was nothing I could do but sit back, watch, and hope the repair went well. Drive H was the SATA drive that I had been cloning to, and it was the drive I had cancelled the operation on.

Fortunately, everything worked out, and the disk was repaired. Lesson learned! Sometimes things don't work out quite as planned, and I have to learn the hard way.

Having said that, if the drive had not been repairable, it wouldn't have been a problem. It would simply have been replaced with a shiny new SSD!