Everything crashed at once, making me the Least Happy Camper.
First my personal hard drive developed the Click of Death, and expired on the spot, hosing 21 days of work (Yes, I know. I generally back up much more often but I was so dang busy doing custom webwork and graphics for people. Yes, I see the irony too, thanks.)
I got my home computer running with a new HD and re-installed OS and applications (now where did I put that driver disk?) … and was breathing a sigh of relief that a great deal of my work was safe on my server…
I was just about to start downloading my (now sole copies of) files from the various websites I’d been working on, when my remotely hosted server crashed in a spectacular fashion, hosing not just itself, but also its supposedly “secure” “redundant” backups.
See here:
http://techdonkey.com/sections/server-status-and-news/
Yes, my crazy life. Gad.
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July 30th, 2006 at 4:17 am