Backin up is hard to do
Doo doo doo down, doobie doo down down,
My hard drive is down, doobie doo down down,
And my data's gone, goobie goo gone gone,
Backin up is hard toooooo do.
Don't take my files away from me;
Don't mess up my i-nodes or B-Tree;
It's all gone, and I'm so blue,
'Cause backin up is hard to do.
Remember when I used to write,
Stayin up to type all through the night?
Think I lost some photos too,
Yes backin up is hard to do.
They say that backin up is hard to do,
But I know that just isn't true.
I've lost some data my friend,
And had I backed it up, then I could simply call it up again.
I beg of you, my old hard drive:
Do you think you could come back alive?
Just a couple hours should do,
'Cause backin up is hard to do.
Uhh... with proper apologies to Neil Sedaka.
Anyway, I went back to Queens for hangout tyme with the fam. and also to investigate the disappearance of dadap.net. I checked the "server room" (my old bedroom) and found babble ("The Tower of Babble", so named because it's a tower, and its primary use for a long time was as a chat server) powered off. I checked the connections (power, ethernet) and tried turning it on again, but no dice. The power supply probably went at some point. "No probem", I figured... should be a simple enough matter to pull the drives, so I pulled them, and the drive that I don't need still seems to work fine, but the drive with all the stuff on it just made a buch of noise and won't mount. (Doesn't even register as a device...)
What was on the drive? All the web stuff on xgerine.homeip.net, dadap.net, and becauseyes.com. Bummer. I have all the photos somewhere, and I have a backup of all my old "Herr Dano's Hideaway" posts somewhere, but I'm afraid I stupidly never backed up becauseyes.com. There are some scattered posts here or there that archive.org captured, but for the most part I'm afraid that I've lost about two years of worthless ramblings. (Not just my own: remember that becauseyes.com was a community journal.)
Needless to say, this loss is a bit upsetting, and it's not the only recent event that has affected me emotionally, though I'm only going to hint vaguely about anything else. Uhmm... yeah. I suppose I'm a bit of a hypocrite for always telling people that they should back up everything, all the time. It's not like it's a difficult thing to do. How hard would it have been for me to scp -R dan@becauseyes.com:/Library/WebServer/Documents ~/webbackup once in a while? (Answer: not at all.) It's not like I never thought about backing it up, either; in fact, there were several times just in the past couple of months when I thought to myself, "You know, I really should make a copy of all the web stuff on babble", only to be too lazy to do it.
I have lost drives in the past, but because I usually work on stuff from more than one place, there is only a small amount of files of which I've lost the only copy. A couple of DV captures, random homework assignments, that sort of thing. Also, embarrasingly enough, some Burning Zone fan fiction. I would be lying if I said that becauseyes.com didn't mean a lot to me, and that I feel like a huge idiot for never backing it up. (OK, I backed it up once, when I merged the old Hideaway entries into becauseyes, but there were probably two dozen becauseyes entries at the time. Besides, it was only one copy burned onto some random CD, which I'd be surprised if I even labeled.)
So, the moral of the story is: don't be an idiot. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
Other than that, stuff has been pretty OK. Swung by jsoltren's on Saturday on the occasion of his return from Bike & Build. Kreggeri made an appearance. Dinner at Caravan with the 250 kids on the occasion of damndirtydyke's and robarchangel's birthdays last night. Ran into Canek on the bridge tonight on my way back into Manhattan (I had an on-site job in Williamsburg); he was heading back to Bed-Stuy because he grabbed the wrong movie for the Times Up! movie night, which I decided to drop in on, running into a bunch of people along the way.
My hard drive is down, doobie doo down down,
And my data's gone, goobie goo gone gone,
Backin up is hard toooooo do.
Don't take my files away from me;
Don't mess up my i-nodes or B-Tree;
It's all gone, and I'm so blue,
'Cause backin up is hard to do.
Remember when I used to write,
Stayin up to type all through the night?
Think I lost some photos too,
Yes backin up is hard to do.
They say that backin up is hard to do,
But I know that just isn't true.
I've lost some data my friend,
And had I backed it up, then I could simply call it up again.
I beg of you, my old hard drive:
Do you think you could come back alive?
Just a couple hours should do,
'Cause backin up is hard to do.
Uhh... with proper apologies to Neil Sedaka.
Anyway, I went back to Queens for hangout tyme with the fam. and also to investigate the disappearance of dadap.net. I checked the "server room" (my old bedroom) and found babble ("The Tower of Babble", so named because it's a tower, and its primary use for a long time was as a chat server) powered off. I checked the connections (power, ethernet) and tried turning it on again, but no dice. The power supply probably went at some point. "No probem", I figured... should be a simple enough matter to pull the drives, so I pulled them, and the drive that I don't need still seems to work fine, but the drive with all the stuff on it just made a buch of noise and won't mount. (Doesn't even register as a device...)
What was on the drive? All the web stuff on xgerine.homeip.net, dadap.net, and becauseyes.com. Bummer. I have all the photos somewhere, and I have a backup of all my old "Herr Dano's Hideaway" posts somewhere, but I'm afraid I stupidly never backed up becauseyes.com. There are some scattered posts here or there that archive.org captured, but for the most part I'm afraid that I've lost about two years of worthless ramblings. (Not just my own: remember that becauseyes.com was a community journal.)
Needless to say, this loss is a bit upsetting, and it's not the only recent event that has affected me emotionally, though I'm only going to hint vaguely about anything else. Uhmm... yeah. I suppose I'm a bit of a hypocrite for always telling people that they should back up everything, all the time. It's not like it's a difficult thing to do. How hard would it have been for me to scp -R dan@becauseyes.com:/Library/WebServer/Documents ~/webbackup once in a while? (Answer: not at all.) It's not like I never thought about backing it up, either; in fact, there were several times just in the past couple of months when I thought to myself, "You know, I really should make a copy of all the web stuff on babble", only to be too lazy to do it.
I have lost drives in the past, but because I usually work on stuff from more than one place, there is only a small amount of files of which I've lost the only copy. A couple of DV captures, random homework assignments, that sort of thing. Also, embarrasingly enough, some Burning Zone fan fiction. I would be lying if I said that becauseyes.com didn't mean a lot to me, and that I feel like a huge idiot for never backing it up. (OK, I backed it up once, when I merged the old Hideaway entries into becauseyes, but there were probably two dozen becauseyes entries at the time. Besides, it was only one copy burned onto some random CD, which I'd be surprised if I even labeled.)
So, the moral of the story is: don't be an idiot. Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.
Other than that, stuff has been pretty OK. Swung by jsoltren's on Saturday on the occasion of his return from Bike & Build. Kreggeri made an appearance. Dinner at Caravan with the 250 kids on the occasion of damndirtydyke's and robarchangel's birthdays last night. Ran into Canek on the bridge tonight on my way back into Manhattan (I had an on-site job in Williamsburg); he was heading back to Bed-Stuy because he grabbed the wrong movie for the Times Up! movie night, which I decided to drop in on, running into a bunch of people along the way.