Of course...3 days away from vacation and I get sick...I sure as hell hope it goes away soon, preferably BEFORE Friday.

Tags: sucks, sick, cold

I write this in hopes that anyone who reads this learns from my shortsightedness. Saturday I went and started up iTunes on my desktop to listen to some music. Well, my network share was unavailable. I figured that samba on my server just needed to be restarted. I restarted Samba, no luck. I look at the uptime, 91 days...I figure maybe my server just needs the rare restart. To make a long story short, the 400GB hard drive that stores my server uploads, music, and documents just went to shit. Bad sector somewhere and I couldn't read anything off the hard drive. Immediately I went out and got a 500GB external hard drive to use for backup. I thought great, now I can backup my music and other important stuff, as well as use it for Time Machine on my Macbook Pro. I manage to get into the hard drive, but am still unable to successfully do much more than that. I now have the hard drive in an enclosure connected to my Mac in hopes of repairing it with fsck but so far it's been unsuccessful.

I'm hoping and praying that I can get it working just long enough to transfer the data, but so far it looks bleak. If this is unsuccessful, I might try the freezer trick, but we shall see. I'm crossing my fingers.

On a side note, I like Time Machine, I just have one comment on it. Time Machine will back up everything on your drive except that which you choose to exclude. Personally, I don't care if Time Machine backs up my system files as I can always just reformat in the rare situation that I have to reformat. What I wish it did was only back up the folders you set it to, rather than backup everything that you don't exclude. Oh well though, seems to be a nice tool either way.

So my final point that I want to make is just this. If you value your data, find a way to back it up. Be it the periodic burn to DVD/CD or whether it be to an external hard drive. Whatever your method or choice of methods, just do it, you'll thank yourself later.

Tags: sucks, dataloss, server