Backup Disaster
Here’s my backup schema.
My laptops (3 of them) and flash drives (a handful of them) get backed up to an external hard drive named “Helix”.
Helix, in turn, gets backed up to an identical external hard drive named “Operator”.
Now that the scene is set….
I had successfully backed up 2 of 3 laptops and all my flash drives to Helix. While laptop #3 was being backed up, I decided to save a little time and wiped Operator to make room for the fresh image coming in from Helix.
Well… Dammit… During the backup of the third laptop, things went all screwy and the hard drive at itself. Now I’m left with no backup of anything I deemed important. You see, there was data on Helix that was not on any of my laptops or flash drives. I’m not sure what to do now other than to fsck Helix and see if I can recover the drive. I really hope that I can because I can’t afford to lose the years (decades?) worth of collected data, files, music, PDFs, pictures and more. I just hope the fsck works. It churned all night last night and didn’t finish by the time I had to leave for work. I have the drive plugged into my laptop now, and a second fsck is churning away. I hope things come out well. We’ll see…
Now to figure out an affordable solution for backing up the data that just lives on Helix and none of the laptops or flash drives. *sigh*
