[IRCServices] Personal status update

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sun Aug 17 11:32:44 PDT 2003


>well, i wish the speedy recovery of your hd, and the data on it.. However, maybe this is a wake up call to get some sorta cron job to back the CVS up onto an external server every 24 hours if possible.. People dont have to have access to it, but its just 
>somewhere where its safe ;)
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>Would certainly save you a headache..

     Very true, that's definitely something I'll be looking into.  I've
also taken the precaution of RAIDing all the important data on my system,
so hopefully it will be at least somewhat more failure-resistant.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Thanks for the update :)
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>>     Just so people know why I'm not reading/responding to mail:
>>I suffered a double failure of hard disk and backup media about two weeks
>>ago, which took everything but my OS (and, fortunately, CVS repository)
>>with it.  Since I have Services under CVS on my local machine, the source
>>itself is saved, but all the auxiliary files--notes, scripts, whatnot--that
>>I use in development, along with all of my saved Services (and other) mail,
>>are poof.  I sent the drive off to a data recovery place, and with any luck
>>they should be able to get the data back (to the tune of $2000...), but the
>>recovery is "taking longer than expected", which is not encouraging.  I'm
>>holding off on dealing with mail until either I get the data back or I find
>>out that I can't get it back, to avoid complicating matters when I try to
>>restore everything.
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>>     So, please be patient for a bit--I'll get back on track as soon as I
>>can.
>>
>>  --Andrew Church
>>    achurch at achurch.org
>>    http://achurch.org/
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