Double Hard Drive Failure
A couple of weeks ago the web server this site is on, along with a couple of other sites I have, like MMA on Tap, experienced a double hard drive failure. Not fun at all.
I didn’t have a recent external backup of the sites on it, as I was backing up locally, and obviously that was shot. The last backup I had was on the old server, which just so happened to be cracked the week before, so I wiped it out. Putting off making that new backup for a week was all the time that was needed before I was reminded why you never put something like that off. The hard drives failed and the server was down.
We tried to recover all files, but after days of swaps and attempts, everything just had to be recreated.
Luckily, data was not effected, so after setting up the site basics, the only thing that was needed was to fill in a few images here and there, and then continue on.
There are still some broken images on some of the sites. Some I’ll come across and upload, others are shot for good. Most have redesigns coming, so I’m focusing more on that anyway.
So, the lesson of the day, which has been the lesson of the day for many people, for many days: always make sure you have a recent backup of your work.
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