[clug] Spreading the joy!

Edward C. Lang edlang at tsumakin.net
Wed Oct 27 00:21:56 GMT 2004


On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 10:13:15PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> just thought you'd get a chuckle out of the horrendously brain-dead
> thing I did today.

What you do not want to see, moments before starting an rsync to backup to
a RAID'd filesystem:

Buffer I/O error on device hde, logical block 3096536
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=24772293, high=1, low=
7995077, sector=24772288
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 24772288
Buffer I/O error on device hde, logical block 3096536
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=24772293, high=1, low=
7995077, sector=24772288
end_request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 24772288

(Maxtor SATA 160GB hdd, about six months old.)

Perhaps I should have backed up to RAID earlier? Or done more frequent
backups? Either way, I lost 120GB of photos. (Late February through to
early August.)

Ok, so that was two weeks ago. I had time to get over it; I could console
myself by knowing that I still had photos from the last month on my
portable HDD enclosure. I'd copied them on it from my machine at home when
I had to reinstall WinXP (which I need for Photoshop). I didn't copy them
back, because I've been busy with other stuff.

On Sunday morning, the drive in the enclosure started clicking. There goes
another 25GB of photos! (Early August through to about a week ago.)

Second lesson: be numb to suffering. Never ask yourself "how can this
possibly get worse?". I should have ignored the first loss and backed up
the second lot of photos as soon as possible.

I'd not backed up to CD/DVD media after reading that they don't have quite the
longevity as previously thought. Silly me.

Anyone know good, yet affordable, data recovery services in or near the
ACT? 

Regards,

Edward.

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