[expletive deleted]…IDE Self Destruct, part 5
July 11th, 2006It was bound to happen, but this time the timing absolutly sucked. The IDE drive in my 8 year old Linux server failed again. Not normally a problem, just build a new box and restore the backup. Yeah, right.
The drive died *during* the backup process, and my lame backup system deletes the old archive to make way for the new one, so rather than an 11GB file, I’ve got 300 megs.
However, I did have a 3 month old virtual server that had the same stuff on it (more or less) so after 5 hours of remembering how the damn thing is set up, I’ve got a (virtual) linux server running, and the stuff that was lost is replaceable.
Happily, all my really important stuff is also sync’d with my Powerbook every few hours, so it could have been a lot worse, but now I’ve got to plan a new uber-backup system and I’m a machine down.
Rule Number 1: Two backups aren’t enough.
Rule Number 2: Manufacturers MTBFs are really just lies.
