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My everyday PC suffered a nasty crash, ironically during my not-nearly-as-regular-as-should-be be backup marathon. This took out not only the main drive, but also corrupted the data on my near-line backup drive. While most of the data exists in other places, I lost some fairly recent stuff. Sadder still is the fact that the main drive was a RAID 0 array and with one drive dying it renders the entire array kaput, and there's no way to simply drop the affected drive into a USB enclosure and pick it apart for the useable data.
Either no more RAID 0 arrays for me, or a much more comprehensive backup plan goes into place.
I also discovered that one folder was constantly being omitted during the backups, and this contained about 75 gigs of bittorrent-aquired goodness. Oh well.
To top this off, while repairing the toilets here and refitting them with new hardware, I find that the water flow-stopping gadget I bought to guard against broken pipes came apart and began leaking. I think these events are somehow related.
I wonder if this post will drive away even more of my 'subscribers'.
Either no more RAID 0 arrays for me, or a much more comprehensive backup plan goes into place.
I also discovered that one folder was constantly being omitted during the backups, and this contained about 75 gigs of bittorrent-aquired goodness. Oh well.
To top this off, while repairing the toilets here and refitting them with new hardware, I find that the water flow-stopping gadget I bought to guard against broken pipes came apart and began leaking. I think these events are somehow related.
I wonder if this post will drive away even more of my 'subscribers'.
