Missives from the 6th Floor: Computers Suck

January 31, 2009

Computers Suck

The ReadyNAS story doesn't have a happy ending. The drive that failed did so in a way that even after recovering most of the disk with myrescue, pretty much the entire filesystem was corrupt.

So I'm currently waiting for CrashPlan to sync up it's view of the backup drive I've mounted on the network, and then I start the long restore of all our music, photos, and email.

I'm realizing the random things that weren't in the backup set and probably should have been, some of which I may have floating around on other disks, some of which I've probably lost.

The silver lining is that I had a backup - had I not, I don't know that I'd be composed enough to even write this all down.

Update: CrashPlan sync'd up it's view of Dawnise's Mac, which should have included her mailbox.

And it doesn't.

It appears in the list of files to backup, but it doesn't appear in the list of files available for restore.

I'm furious.

Posted by dberger at January 31, 2009 12:31 PM