So, today around 3 pm I recieved an email from my mail server. It seems the automated hourly backup failed. I SSHed in, and looked and it was having trouble writing to the backup drive on the file server. I paused to pick my heart up out of my shoe again… I then SSHed into the fiel server, and did a drive list of the volume on the backup drive. Everything was scrambled and unusable except the directory the mail backup had transferred to. I checked the partition type with fdisk,and it now read FAT32. HUH!?!?!?!?
I tried switching the type back to linux, but it was a lost cause… I have NO idea what could have triggered it to revert to a fat32 partition type. I swear I live on some sort of odd convergence of magnetic fields or something. I have NEVER known anyone else to have so many bizzare HDD related issues. I think my next “toy” is going to have to be a gauss meter.
Oh, guess how much data I lost this time…
Nothing really… All the music files were on there, but they are ALL on my ipod and I think I can retrieve them from it w/o much effort.
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