K-Rad is starting from scratch   5 comments

Posted at 11:56 pm in Personal Blog Nonsense

K-Rad is down… For now.

2 weeks ago, the hard drive in my server crashed. The server wasn’t recognizing the drive, so I couldn’t log in to troubleshoot.

A week later, Stephen was able to go down and retrieve the drive for me. He shipped it to me right away.

I plugged the drive in, to see if I could at least recover the data.

The drive sounds like it is severely damaged… As if the head of the drive is just scraping against the platters non-stop. The drive is completely screwed.

I am going to bring it into a data recovery service center tomorrow. Hopefully they can get the data back.

I have backups of many of the sites that were hosted on it, but not all of them. For instance, I did not keep a backup of this blog, which is going on 5 years old. If I can’t recover the data, everything is gone.

The same goes for the old Surreal-News forum. Nearly 10 years of community posts will be gone.

And many others, sites of friends and family.

The lesson is; KEEP A BACKUP. Actually a bigger lesson would be to SPRING FOR RAID in your server.

I never really intended to run many important sites from my server. I really should have set up RAID regardless.

Right now this is being hosted by my really old server, which is semi functional (email does not work). I will be moving the sites over to another server, until I go to Canada in June. When I get there, I will put new hard drives in my server (RAID of course).

Some time next week, I’ll find out of the data could be recovered. If so, it will cost up to (or perhaps over) $1000. But it should be worth it.

If not, K-Rad, and many other sites, will have to start from scratch.

For now, you can follow me on Twitter.

Wish me luck!

Written by Carl Nelson on April 22nd, 2008

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  1. That’s crappy. Hopefully you get someone that is good, but feels ashamed to charge for his work. I have a dude like that and it’s great for those emergencies.

    stephen

    23 Apr 08 at 10:26 am

  2. Damn. any chance of you posting the guide to remove the tab’s and ad’s on MSN 7.5 I can’t find it anywhere.

    Good luck on the recovery as well :)

    Krigo

    24 Apr 08 at 10:53 am

  3. Doesn’t WD offer a special data warranty on their enterprise gear?

    Trevor

    6 May 08 at 5:21 am

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