Disk Death

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Sun Mar 1 17:07:22 PST 2009


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:58:19PM +1000, Keith Antoine wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
>> There I was, happily computing along and downloading a torrent of the  
>> Fedora 11 alpha when the following occurred:

[disk death]

> Kurt,
>
> Knowing you and you may years of experience and wisdom one assumes that  
> you had insurance like a backup !
> I do rememeber once many years ago, in Caldera days,  being told that I  
> should have had a backup, by a certain GURU :))

I don't remember this, but it sounds like the sort of thing I would say. :)
And, yes, I have a backup. After my last catastrophic failure, I started 
making regular backups of $HOME, /etc, my databases (/var/lib/pgsql/data), 
and /var/www.

Kurt
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