Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:53:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Pete Ehlke <pde@ehlke.net> Cc: Taylor Dondich <thexder@lvcm.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <3CDBFB24.6A831F6F@mindspring.com> References: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> <20020510063645.A16371@ehlke.net>
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Pete Ehlke wrote: > 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. 1) Backups are your friend 2) IDE write caching hates everyone 3) You local "Home Depot" sells little metal switch plates that have "flippy covers" that make it really hard to treat them as ordinary light switches, or turn things off accidently via the "leaving the room" reflex. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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