BACKUP !!!

February 4, 2006 , 1:52 am

Cand am citit, am zis ceva de genu “Fak mi Giz?s”!!! si am paralizat…

Jan 31, 2006
This server’s hard disk is dead. Nothing can be read any more from it, and it keeps doing odd clicks. I tried almost everything to recover it today, and the heads keep clicking without reading any data.
For the record, the hard disk was a 40 Gb Seagate Momentus. I bought it 1.5 years ago. The SMART status was always okay, without any error. But last morning, that drive killed itself.
I used to backup the data from that server every week, on another host. But last week, I needed some space for a specific application. And I temporarely deleted the backup. 2 days later, the disk died. And that host was always backuped for 5 years before. Call it Murphy’s law or voodoo, but it really, really, really sucks.
I tried almost every trick found on internet, including putting it in the freezer in a ziplock. No change. The BIOS doesn’t see it any more.
The death of that hard disk has a lot of implications. I’ve lost almost all my work from the last 5 years. I’ve lost all my unreleased source code. I’ve lost all my documentation. I’ve lost critical private and professionnal mails. I’ve lost ssh keys, passwords, license numbers, etc.
All web sites that used to be hosted here are lost. The work for the upcoming new versions of ucarp, sharedance and pure-ftpd is lost. The manucure-pro.com web site is no more, and the customer database is lost as well. 00f.net is obviously dead with the rest, the data is lost with the code. I have no way to recover the subscribers list of mailing-lists like pureftpd’s and ucarp’s ones.
There were things that can be made again (from scratch sigh). But other things were unique and they can’t be made again nor recovered.
The content of that hard disk was really critical for me. I couldn’t even do my daily job without peeking at code snippets that were made, tested and stored on that host.
This is like a bullet in my head. I feel as lost as the data. This server didn’t contain crap like mp3 or movies. It contained files I can’t work without. I already experienced some hard disk crashes, but none was as important as that one. Jedi/Sector One was that hard disk.
I’m gonna call a data recovery company, but this kind of service is usually very expensive, I probably can’t afford it.
The hard disk was replaced with another one and a raw operating system. I just rebuilt basic services like DNS and email.
Thank you for coming and for reading this text. You can probably delete the orphan address from your bookmarks now. And thank you Seagate.
-Frank.

Restul pe http://www.pureftpd.org/

Noroc ca se arata soarele…
Adica cel mai istetz FTPD tzinut fara backup pe un mediu safe gen, CD/DVD/Tape ? Ma nenea admin… tac pt. ca pure-ftpd is the best in viziunea mea… si totusi…

Morala: Pune dracu` pe DVD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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