It’s 2 a.m., do you know where your sleep is?

It’s 1:55am right now, and yeah, I’m still at work.  Our email / web server had a critical hard drive failure today.  I spent my afternoon running various recovery tools on it as well as trying to copy any readable data to a good drive.  It got mostly everything except all of the Unix files.  Yeah, I don’t need THOSE for Apache or Communigate Pro.

So, I’m presently installing X on a new hard drive and going to have to put everything back from scratch.  Yes, that’s right, no backups.  Oh, backups were done--but that harddrive was one of the backup drives.  Use every ounce of every computer in the building is the philosophy here.  We’ll never have a physical crash on a hard drive.  Just make a backup and copy on the same machine, in case the working file goes bad.

Posted Wednesday October 15, 2003 in Real Life by Derek Jones

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....and it’s 4:13 and I just got inside the house.  No, it’s not fixed as you can tell, but the new hard drive is finally operational, and I’ll be able to setup the email server portion tomorrow.  The web site?  Geez, I wonder if I’ll ever get to it.  Ever.

By Derek Jones on October 15, 2003 at 03:15am link

Good grief, man, that’s insane!  I hope they gave you today off (or Friday/Monday) off in appreciation for going nuts over this.

By Chris Curtis on October 15, 2003 at 08:13am link

Nope--the data entry clerk is out of office, having tumors removed from her neck, and my new artist is gone, and I still have to work on construction of parts of the new shop area.  I’m going to work late (just now), but will probably be there till six or seven. :-

By Derek Jones on October 15, 2003 at 09:19am link

ok, have you guys heard of tape drives? Time + Cost of new Hard drive = more efficient way to back things up. Say it with me now… Tape drive… tape drive… tape drive… tape drive…

By john on October 15, 2003 at 10:04am link

The tape drives that we have are all busy backing up our massive Filemaker databases and file storage.  The email and web machine is the only harddrive in the building that wasn’t being backed up to tape.  Why?  Beats me--I’m not even the guy in charge of that stuff, but when it goes wrong, I’m always expected to fix it.

By Derek Jones on October 15, 2003 at 10:30am link

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