MadAudio
Damned if I do
Quit putting it off! Back up your data now! And verify the backup is good before you delete!
That is all........
That is all........
D
danny.guitar
Guest
I don't feel like it though...
MadAudio
Damned if I do
I thought that before the last time I had a hard drive die on me.danny.guitar said:
This post is one of those so-called "words to the wise."
If your hard drive crashes tomorrow, I will have no sympathy!
dgatwood
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I swapped out my TiVo hard drive this past week because it was getting noisy and acting a little quirky. While working on that (several evenings of programming to fix bugs in the software I was using to expand the drive to make it work correctly in Mac OS X instead of just Linux), I noticed that one of my servers had a drive going south.
Nothing important lost (and I have backups of everything important anyway), but the server was down for 24 hours cloning the ^(@*&$^#*& drive.
So I was using external hard drive cases with the TiVo drives to hook them up via FireWire. As I finished with the TiVo drives, before doing the server clone, I plugged the original drives (the ones actually in the external cases) back in just to make sure things were working. One of them didn't spin up. After a power cycle, it spun up, but at that point, it quickly made my "this drive needs to be cloned" list.
So instead of just cloning the TiVo hard drive, I now had to clone THREE hard drives. Oh, and during the process of doing this, I had a data corruption glitch on my old laptop that caused it to not boot. I hooked it up to the other laptop and got things fixed up (again, no important data lost), but yikes. That's four drive problems in a single weekend.
Oh, yeah, and then I turned on my two year old PowerMac G5 (quad) and the power supply blew. They're sending somebody to replace the power supply later this week....
Moral of the story: BACK UP YOUR DATA. I have backups for every one of the drives that I had problems with (except the TiVo, though I do still have the original TiVo hard drive, so I could at least get back up and running, albeit without recently recorded content even if the drive died completely). If I did not have most of this stuff backed up, I would have been utterly in a state of panic for several days straight!
Moral #2: Never let me within a thousand feet of your hardware. If there is even the smallest hardware flaw, it will spontaneously manifest itself as I approach. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Nothing important lost (and I have backups of everything important anyway), but the server was down for 24 hours cloning the ^(@*&$^#*& drive.
So I was using external hard drive cases with the TiVo drives to hook them up via FireWire. As I finished with the TiVo drives, before doing the server clone, I plugged the original drives (the ones actually in the external cases) back in just to make sure things were working. One of them didn't spin up. After a power cycle, it spun up, but at that point, it quickly made my "this drive needs to be cloned" list.
So instead of just cloning the TiVo hard drive, I now had to clone THREE hard drives. Oh, and during the process of doing this, I had a data corruption glitch on my old laptop that caused it to not boot. I hooked it up to the other laptop and got things fixed up (again, no important data lost), but yikes. That's four drive problems in a single weekend.
Oh, yeah, and then I turned on my two year old PowerMac G5 (quad) and the power supply blew. They're sending somebody to replace the power supply later this week....
Moral of the story: BACK UP YOUR DATA. I have backups for every one of the drives that I had problems with (except the TiVo, though I do still have the original TiVo hard drive, so I could at least get back up and running, albeit without recently recorded content even if the drive died completely). If I did not have most of this stuff backed up, I would have been utterly in a state of panic for several days straight!
Moral #2: Never let me within a thousand feet of your hardware. If there is even the smallest hardware flaw, it will spontaneously manifest itself as I approach. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
drstawl
Banned
Nothing digital exists at all unless it exists in two places!MadAudio said:
MadAudio
Damned if I do
"One zero zero one zero zero onedrstawl said:
SOS
One zero zero one zero zero
In distress"
andyhix
:dank:
MadAudio said:
But I don't even have a computer yet. I guess it still wouldn't hurt. But I don't know - re-writing all my ideas into a second notebook seems like a LOT of work. But if you insist....