Pilot Archive

Wow that sucks sorry to hear that.

hmmm, 3 weeks takes me to about 200 entries and puts Nuthar back in the lead, I think I see Mulder and Scully around here somewhere

You mean there is a chance of me being the number one contributor for five minutes before Itet exceeds the combined contributions of us all?

I'm really sorry to hear this. That could be a lot of lost effort on all of our parts (contributions and fixes). I hope something can be done to recover the data that is not too drastic.

I'm gonna lay out the five hundred bucks to get the drive restored. There's about a thirty hours of unbacked-up code on that machine and at 60 bucks an hour..well, it's worth it. Sucks.

We'll probably be out about five days.

bah, I wouldn't have done that. Just use the last contribution numbers, and pick up at the last back-up. Then find a nice 120GB HD, and another in an external Firewire2 case, and back up once a week. But I'm cheap. I know my feelings won't be hurt. Loot Loot! Loot! Only half of the stuff I've submitted is RE'd now, it would just take next Saturday to resubmit them. In the mean time, I have 3 Rebel Squads to master....

I highly recommend getting a second drive and running a nightly backup to it if you have things that are important enough to use a recovery service. That or go with a RAID format that lets you mirror drives or rebuild data if one fails. Backups like this have saved me many times at work.

grrrr, would take me about 14-18 hours and another 4 weeks for the loot to rebuild 1093 items. Here's hoping it's not a bad problem.

My backups are pretty good.

Worst case, we blew up a drive and I have to find a replacement machine or buy hosting to get it back up and running. Best case, it just bluescreened or someone uploaded a giant file and soaked up the drivespace or something.

In all likelihood it's not that big a deal. I'm leaving work in half an hour and will know more shortly thereafter.

Poor little notebook. I feel sorry for what we must have put it through.

How is the ventilation in the closet for the notebook? (Or even just the notebook iteself?) The drives in those can get pretty hot without some airflow and running all the time probably makes it worse...

If you can store everything on a flashdrive, you could get one and leave it in all the time, then set up some sort of automatic backup. If you are using linux some sort of chron job [or backup software if they make it], or NT Backup if NT/2k/XP. (I'm so bad about backing things up manually that I gave up trying. Also, me being lazy, it is easier in the long run.)

The ventilation is fine, I keep the door open and a fan going and the thing neverreally gets warm The application is actually very minimalistic - I think ColdFusion + Apache + MySQL only uses about 60 meg of memory even during peak usage. It's just an old piece of hardware that I used to carry in a backpack while riding my bike to work. It's a wonder it didn't blow up before this.

I'llset upsome flavor of automated backup once I get the drive back. It shipped out overnight to Wisconsin today for the restoration. I figured out a way to bill it to my day job, even I'm a bad man.