Re: Hard disk crash and solution

["Rudy L. Zijlstra" <rudy@edsons.demon.nl>]

Niek wrote:
<snip>

>Data is there. I'm very happy!!
>What did we learn. A lot. One of them is that computers are more unreliable
>than humans and they are
>not very reliable. Look e.g. at Suse. Their auto update should have updated
>the reiserfs programs to the
>newest versions, but they forgot to put that in. I'll mail them.
>One thing that Namesys should do is to make the software more user-friendly
>and put this type of info in their webpages
>Crashed HD's are a pain in the ass to repair. This type of IBM drives have a
>flaw. Ibm confirmed this, but they did not remove them from the market.
>
>
>
>Have a lot of fun,
>
>Nick
>  
>
I am missing yet another lesson:

Make backups of important data!

Cheers,

Rudy

P.S. I run a nightly incremental backup to a different machine... I 
*hate* losing data.
And yes, I have been saved by my backups at least twice already. I've 
had disks fail on me (including SCSI disks, and including that idiot IBM 
DTLA), and I've had the original user fault (overwriting of file with 
different content, then a few weeks later: "Oops, that file does not 
contain what it should")