[Gllug] Terrible weekend

[Alain Williams]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 02:11:44PM +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:

> I've been managing computers for 20 years and in that time I've only 
> ever had to restore files for one reason, someone deleted a file that 
> they shouldn't have.

Hmmm, I have: had a couple of disks go fut; a scsi disk controller die
slowly (giving it plenty of opportunity to write an occasional block of
cr*p - which is why several generations of backup are useful); a PSU
age which caused tiny disk corruptions[*] when the tape backup started ...

Do NOT assume that hardware does not fail; also do NOT assume that you
will notice a failure quickly.

[*] Reiser file system a few years back - most curious, lots of files
'shifted one byte on' ie a garbage byte at the start of the file &
the last byte missing.

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Alain Williams
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd.
Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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