[RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Most of the probe down because of USB Stick read-only

Finally!
Same here....

Months into the project, I wish I have hit the 50 or even 100 probes by now.
Yet, I'm stuck with faulty probes here and there and I am asking too much from non-technical and geographically dispersed hosts to literally repair their uninvited out-of-my-reach pets. Buying a new USB memory is a whole new story.

Guys, please either fix the software or do logging with probe's internal memory, or whatever.
This is becoming a huge drawback.

Regards,
M. Tajbakhsh​


Budiwijaya  wrote:
>                 Hi,
> 
> I just realised that most of my Ambassador Probes are offline probably
> caused by USB stick that turned into read-only mode.
> 
> A couple of guys that I contacted and I give them instruction to
> reformat the USB stick said that the USBs are read only.
> 
> I already told them to try to change the USB sticks, but looks like
> none are voluntarily (buy a new USB/use their USB stick) to change the
> USB sticks.
> 
> Any idea how to revive the dead probe?
> 
> Thank you
> Budiwijaya
> 
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