{"id":8740,"date":"2010-04-16T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8740"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:28:11","slug":"my-never-ending-agony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=8740","title":{"rendered":"My Never-Ending Agony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up Wednesday. fed the cats, turned on my computer to check email... instead of the expected <i>whirrrRRR!!!!<\/i> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Digital_Raptor\">Raptor<\/a> spinning up, I heard the dread <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Click_of_death#Hard_disk\">Click Of Death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dead C drive.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, all my development files are on the D drive; the C drive only holds installed applications and my email data files. And, besides I have two different backup sets (bi-weekly incremental and monthly full). Even better, I just happened to make an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acronis_True_Image\">image<\/a> of that C drive, back in January. I am prepared!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seykota.com\/tribe\/faq\/2005_jan\/Jan_1\/frustration.gif\" align=right style=\"border:none\"><br \/>\nSo, I pulled the Raptor, dropped in the image and booted to a perfectly functional (if not 100% up to date) system. Ta-da! <\/p>\n<p>Next, to grab Tuesday night's email backups off the <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7577\">NAS<\/a> and put the whole incident out of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Except... the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retrospect.com\/\">backup program<\/a> says the latest email files it has are from... 2008. \"Fuck you,\" I say. \"Rebuild your index, re-catalog your thingy, figure out what you have!\" \"OK,\" says the program, \"That will take four hours.\" \"Whatever. Do it!\" I shout. It chugs away while I go to work. <\/p>\n<p>When I return home, it has rebuilt its catalog. \"What say you?\" I demand. <\/p>\n<p>It replies, \"The latest email files I have are from... 2008.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"Fuck you,\" I say.<\/p>\n<p>So I bring home the full backup set, which I keep on a USB drive that lives in my desk at work. \"Fetch me the files I require!\" I say to the backup program. \"I must rebuild the catalog files for this backup set,\" it says. \"That will take another five hours.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Fine! Do it!\" I command. While it works, I drink a lot of wine. And some Glenlivet.<\/p>\n<p>It whirs and chugs for five hours, then replies \"OK, the latest email files I have are from... 2008.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"FUCK YOU!\" I say, to the backup program. <\/p>\n<p>\"FUCK YOU!\" I say to the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\"FUCK! YOU!\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up Wednesday. fed the cats, turned on my computer to check email... instead of the expected whirrrRRR!!!! of the Raptor spinning up, I heard the dread Click Of Death. Dead C drive. Luckily, all my development files are on the D drive; the C drive only holds installed applications and my email data files. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}