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telynor and tiggerypum!
telynor and tiggerypum!2005-05-06
Note to household members
2005-05-06 07:54 amPlease refrain from putting breakable items, including ceramic knives, glass pot-lids, wineglasses, and the like, in the sink or even on the cutting board (where it could easily get knocked into the sink). If you can't find a safe place to set something down, please wash it, dry it, and put it away. If you don't think you can take proper care of a breakable item, don't use it in the first place.
This has been a public service announcement from the household dishwasher and general factotum.
This has been a public service announcement from the household dishwasher and general factotum.
Dumb bear. No mirror.
2005-05-06 08:53 amTransferring 40GB over USB-1 takes a long time. In retrospect, I should have taken the drive out and put it in a tray. Or plugged it into the one machine in the house that has USB-2 ports.
It's also possible that a local Debian mirror was a bad idea in the first place; I really have no idea what it will do to my DSL bandwidth.
It's also possible that a local Debian mirror was a bad idea in the first place; I really have no idea what it will do to my DSL bandwidth.
Getting religion (again)
2005-05-06 02:19 pmThe agonized screams you heard this morning came from a Mandelbear who has just discovered that his primary home directory (at work) has disappeared. Totally blown away.
Things weren't as bad as they could have been: I do almost all my work on my desktop machine, so all of my recent software development and almost all of my config files were safe. But all of my email archives (which amount to several GB these days), all of my internally-web-accessible documents -- basically everything that wasn't a config file or software under development -- was gone. And there was something massively wonky about my Firefox config, too.
As it turns out, the RAID array had crashed. A restore is in progress, but the last useable backup appears to have been done last Friday, so I lose a week's worth of email, and I'm going to have an interesting time patching the CVS version history. Luckily, I was going to do some major refactoring Real Soon Now. Sounds like a good time.
The ironic thing, of course, is that I had just gotten a huge USB drive a couple of weeks ago, and making a complete backup of both home directories onto it (with regular nightly backups) was pretty high on my list of Important Things to Do. So was making the desktop machine my primary home, with the networked server the backup. Those tasks suddenly got a lot higher on the list.
Things weren't as bad as they could have been: I do almost all my work on my desktop machine, so all of my recent software development and almost all of my config files were safe. But all of my email archives (which amount to several GB these days), all of my internally-web-accessible documents -- basically everything that wasn't a config file or software under development -- was gone. And there was something massively wonky about my Firefox config, too.
As it turns out, the RAID array had crashed. A restore is in progress, but the last useable backup appears to have been done last Friday, so I lose a week's worth of email, and I'm going to have an interesting time patching the CVS version history. Luckily, I was going to do some major refactoring Real Soon Now. Sounds like a good time.
The ironic thing, of course, is that I had just gotten a huge USB drive a couple of weeks ago, and making a complete backup of both home directories onto it (with regular nightly backups) was pretty high on my list of Important Things to Do. So was making the desktop machine my primary home, with the networked server the backup. Those tasks suddenly got a lot higher on the list.