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Friday, July 06, 2007
And like that it was gone...
Well I've had a highly unproductive afternoon scrambling to rebuild my development PC after the RAID 5 decided to kill itself off... at first the pc reported one disk had fallen out of the raid... I brought it back in, rebooted, the machine started rebuilding the array then rebooted itself.. at which point it declared each disk was a member of different array... stuffed around with it for about an hour and contemplated throwing a 750gig drive in and doing a software-based recovery... but considering last time I did something like that it took a number of
days
to complete, I decided to just heave a large sigh, break the array up into individual disks and re-install (without RAID-5 this time...).
Thankfully between svn, google apps (gmail for domains, google reader) and del.icio.us I don't think a lot has slipped through the gaps, barring the odd bit of skype history.
Guess I know what I'll be doing this weekend. bleh!
hardware
posted @ Friday, July 06, 2007 3:07:22 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
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Friday, July 06, 2007 11:32:16 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
That sucks man. I just lost my array on my home machine recently. I had it setup for gaming and it was Raid 0.
Being a moron, i didn't back anything up. I didn't really lose anything except about 150gb of mp3's which hurt the most.
good luck!
Sean Chambers
Friday, July 06, 2007 11:46:19 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
Thankfully I've only lost time, I'm pretty careful when it comes to work-related data - it's my businesses reputation and my clients trust after all, and this was a work machine...
Though it's still time consuming installing, patching and tweaking everything back to the way I like it, and then doing the same for all my VPC's which I only snapshot every one to two weeks. Guess I've learnt my lesson :) I'll probably ghost the machine this time round once it's all setup.
Alex Henderson
Friday, July 06, 2007 2:51:31 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
I make full Aconis full snapshots daily as the last step before I goto bed. As an independent who can be down - even for hours. Disk space is cheap, your billable time is not!
Mr_Acronis
Friday, July 06, 2007 8:02:28 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)
Can't agree more about the full snapshots... I have to admit to a little slackness on my part as I only built the machine a month prior, and was contemplating reverting it back to XP from Vista64.
I might give Acronis a look, see if it suits my needs.
Alex Henderson
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