Backups are wonderful
Sep. 3rd, 2010 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularThe disk crash the other day is, I think, solved. Full disk-image backups are fairly awesome that way, though not everyone would be as lucky as me this time around - managing to get a good boot after the first hint of drive failure, and then making a point to image-backup the failing disk while it was still functional.
The repair process basically went like this:
1) Buy new disk at lunch break.
2) Get home at eight PM and take three minutes to pull failing disk from the desktop PC chassis and screw in the new disk.
3) Boot the PC from the emergency rescue CD I was prompted to burn when I made the image backup.
4) Tell the rescue CD to format the new disk and copy over the image backup.
5) Putter around the apartment for four hours, doing laundry, finishing unpacking my suitcase, cooking dinner, watching the Yankees.
6) Check to make sure the machine's behaving when I hear the logging-in tone at about midnight.
Now if I could just get my body re-adjusted to waking up at quarter to eight in the morning...
The repair process basically went like this:
1) Buy new disk at lunch break.
2) Get home at eight PM and take three minutes to pull failing disk from the desktop PC chassis and screw in the new disk.
3) Boot the PC from the emergency rescue CD I was prompted to burn when I made the image backup.
4) Tell the rescue CD to format the new disk and copy over the image backup.
5) Putter around the apartment for four hours, doing laundry, finishing unpacking my suitcase, cooking dinner, watching the Yankees.
6) Check to make sure the machine's behaving when I hear the logging-in tone at about midnight.
Now if I could just get my body re-adjusted to waking up at quarter to eight in the morning...
