Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>
>>>>> I'll buy a new hard-drive tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Buy two, then raid1 from hot swap bays. No more down time.
>>>>
>>>>> Haven't decided which distro yet.
>>>>
>>>> Well Fedora, obviously :)
>>>>
>>>>> I have progressive backups, so no data (well, *probably* none) was
>>>>> lost. Just time...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why don't you put a drive in next to the existing one and copy
>>> everything across?
>>
>> Bad sectors. Yesterday my system would not even boot. The latest
>> automated backup (2007-06-14) was complete, but it seems to have been
>> contaminated (with errors). The previous tape archive (2007-06-11) was
>> fine, so I scp'ed the 'diffs' of important files while I could... which
>> I'm glad I did. All in all, all I lost are a few outgoing E-mails (I
>> pop), which I sort of received back in a reply with quoted bits.
>>
>
> Ah, okay... good luck!
It's not worth the effort really. I no longer mind keeping record of things
that I write/read. The Internet is too vast for this and information
becomes distributed (a cloud), Just consider programs like Google Earth
where some back end contains the data, which can be a vast amount of 3-D
information about your neighbourhood. Knowledge centralised in Wikis is
another good examples. Whose text is it? Does one care?
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~~ Best of wishes
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