Over the weekend, I had a little bit of a scare. My wife and I were playing online and all of a sudden, the Coldplay album she was listening to stopped playing. When she tried again, iTunes said it could no longer locate the tracks for that album and a host of others. Fearing the worst I checked the hard drive on our server and sure enough, I could no longer access those files. In the end no data was lost. A single data block on the disk had gone bad, but was easily repaired. Thankfully I had just made a backup of our iTunes library the week before. What I had neglected to backup was the rest of the server, including this blog!! Circuit City just happened to be running a great deal this weekend on a 160GB ATA drive from Seagate for $39. (after rebates of course) I bought 2, one for the server and one as a backup. The server is back up and running on the new drive, and I have a complete copy of all the data on the other drive. Phew, I feel a little better now…
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Yay! We can’t lose my tunes, you know. There may be a few of your tunes we could lose though. 🙂
Hmm.. I don’t think so.
I have lost plenty of data to the hardware gnomes. Luckily I have just about everything backing up on a regular basis on my home network now. We even have individual one-touch external drives for each PC that allows us to back everything up. In case of fire, we can just grab those drives and head out the door with them.
I’m just waiting for someone to invent a firebox network drive so I can concentrate on grabbing my cats on the way out instead of my data 😉