temojen's Journal: Mass Data Loss... Oy, it's going to take a while to recover

Had two power surges last night, so I went down to shut down the computers and unplug them. This morning my Drobo won't mount; disk utility and fdisk both fail. Argh.

Thank-you

[tqft]

I thought the front page article on journalspace would have done it - but this has (is storm season here).

After upgrading 2 months ago (Hardy to Intrepid) hadn't done a backup
Now running
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SOURCE='/boot /home /usr /etc /media/disk-2/programs/mozilla'
DEST=/media/disk-6/sysbackup
time rsync -raC --progress --stats --delete-during $SOURCE $DEST

Re:

[temojen]

Why are you backing up /usr?

Re:

[tqft]

Good question

I should be doing /lib/firmware as well

ian@tqft:/usr/src$ ls
linux
linux-2.6.27
linux_2.6.27-9.19.diff.gz
linux_2.6.27-9.19.dsc
linux_2.6.27.orig.tar.gz
linux-headers-2.6.27.2-tqft2_2.6.27.2-tqft2-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.27.2-tqft3
linux-headers-2.6.27.2-tqft3_2.6.27.2-tqft3-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.27.2-tqft4
linux-headers-2.6.27.2-tqft4_2.6.27.2-tqft4-10.00.Custom_i386.deb
linux-headers-2.6.27-7
linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic
linux-headers-2.6.27-9
linux-headers-2.6.27-9-gene