Getting religion (again)
2005-05-06 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearThe 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.