Happens to everyone. I bought a second internal hard drive, a $20 drive duplication program, and duplicate all files automatically on both drives every week. I hate when a hard drive goes kaput happens-and it does all the time.
Marc
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> From: Ernest Christley <echristl@cisco.com>
> Date: 2005/01/13 Thu PM 04:54:05 GMT
> To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
> Subject: [FlyRotary] other mailinglist
>
> Please excuse the off topic post, but several of the Delta builders hang
> here, so this is an easy way for me to get the word out.
>
> The Deltaflyers list, my website, and just about all of my personal
> computing life is down for the count until further notice.  After only 4
> years of constant running, I finally have had that dreaded harddrive
> failure.  My wife had some problems, so I logged in remotely and found
> some badblock errors in the log files.  As I was looking at it, the
> drive went belly up and corrupted the partition records.  It was less
> that 6 hours between the first badblock reports and the complete
> inability to seek parts of the drive.
>
> It wouldn't be so bad, except that I was running RAID-0 with /home
> spread across the drives.  The /var directory resided on the healthy
> drive, so the thankfully the website is basically intact. But I kept the
> mailing list archive in /usr/lib/mailman, and I'm not sure if I'll be
> able to salvage that.  But my home directory has my email archives and
> several projects, most notably my pre-natal propeller optimization
> program.
>
> I'm being slow and careful, trying to recover as much as possible, so
> I'm not ready to give a ETA for when it will be back up.
>
> And just to think, I told myself a thousand times that I need to do a
> backup.
>
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