From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 6:36:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ucan.foad.org (ucan.foad.org [64.173.36.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C4D37B408 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 06:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pde@localhost) by ucan.foad.org (foad/FOAD2.0) id g4ADajx20337; Fri, 10 May 2002 06:36:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 06:36:45 -0700 From: Pete Ehlke To: Taylor Dondich Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <20020510063645.A16371@ehlke.net> References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>; from thexder@lvcm.com on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:23:00AM -0700, Taylor Dondich wrote: > > It fought a good fight. Orion, I only had you for a short time. Your day > will come again. > > So it's time to rebuild a new server, and get more experience with > filesystems and fsck. Any tips you have would be extremely greatful. > I think the best tip here is: backups are your friend. Something seems to happen to people's understanding of this when they set up machines in their homes. People who are paranoid to a fault about backups at the office let their home systems run for years without backing them up. When the inevitable happens, as you found out, life without a tape drive is hell. Now, I understand that finding a way to back up your 200 Gb home MP3 collection can be painful, but if you have systems and data that are important to you, get that data backed up *somewhere*. -Pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message