On Tuesday 08 June 2010 20:05:46 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Neal Murphy wrote: > > I started playing with UNIX in 1986, and Linux in the > > mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that > > contained half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years > > of pics and history. > > No backups? How is this different (in effect) from a failed disk drive.
It differs in that I keep an eye on my hard drives. When they start to show signs of old age and failure, I buy a replacement and move everything to the new drive. (Euthenasia doesn't apply to hard drives.) I've been close to a drive failure (an 'older' WD 30GB drive), but heard it struggling to read and decided I should buy a replacement. And back when 1TB drives reached $80US, I bought two Hitachi SATA 3s to replace the perfectly functional and problem-free 400GB Apple SATA 1.5s I'd bought a few years years earlier; I needed more disk space. Alas, wiping out data is *not* the preferred method of acquiring more disk space. :( Of course, it didn't help that my ASUS dual dual-core Opteron mboard on-board power supply capacitors gave up their ghosts; that's when I bought the new mboard and a quad PhII 965 and 8GB RAM. (I truly *despise* waiting for Linux distribs to compile.) But you are right. I had no backups and no excuses. I have an empty 400GB drive that would have held most of that data. And there's no reason I could not have saved all the pics to DVDs. I didn't. I lost. Oh, well. No one died, and no critters or humans were harmed, so no foul. :) Too bad I didn't wipe out my ripped CDs. I could've re-ripped them. Sigh. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
