What a load of bollox! This seems to be the week I experience maximum crashage.
Hard times/drive
First, my shop pc had a hard drive crash. A massive one. The drive wouldn’t even spin! I tried the usual methods found on a Google like putting it in a plastic bag and putting it the freezer which is supposed to fix a jammed disc.
nope.
Then I tried what this page tried. Basically, swapping the logic board from an identical drive to the faulty one. That actually got the drive spinning and recognized in windows but unfortunately, it was completely trashed. Every sector screwed and no matter what software apps I threw at it, it wouldn’t play. (so I took it apart to see how it works)
Lost code
All my backups of my server where on that disc. All.of.them!
In a great wave of relief, I found that 99% of it had been updated to the live server only the day before. The 1% that didn’t just so happened to be my awesome edit of the pay-to-blog plugin which I was about to put on ComLuv. dammit, that was some good coding I added to the plugin.
It would have allowed me to set a free time limit on new blogs of say 30 days and when that runs out, the next time the blog owner tried to log on, they would be presented with a page where they can pay a piddly 5 USD to have the blog enabled for a year. If they didn’t want to or couldn’t pay then they could request a free blog and that would notify me by email and list the request on my admin page.
I’ll have to rewrite the code and I bet I can’t remember how I did it!
New install, new problems
I managed to grab another hard drive and put it in the box to replace the poop one. Installed Ubuntu 9.10 and vwmare and got all the shop POS software working with the ancient equipment we have. Sweet! until… only 24 hours of nice working, it went pooooop. Something to do with i810 video drivers missing. Cue 5 hours pissing about with sudo apt-get and other linux bollox until at last, it is working again.
And then Vmware decided to stop working with the serial port via USB. Pleh!
More sudo apt-get and 2 hours later, I found an old vwmare image for the win98 system and copied over the contents of the .vmx file and ta-da! it worked again.
No more please!
No more. thanks. done it now.
New Wheels
Even these got delayed by 3 days. Next day delivery bleeeeuuurrgh!
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I hate it when this happens. I know you put hours in on trying to recover your stuff. I recently had a server that had a sql problem. The hosting company would not even reply to me to run a simple repair on the database so I moved, but the client had to enter all of their listings in again, this happened to a Real Estate site I designed years ago. Tedious but we got it done.
Point is I also hate losing info. Glad you got most of it back, luckily we did too except the one table in the database. I now host all of my own sites, no more shoddy hosting companies.
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Richard: lol, I prolly spent longer trying to recover it than it would have took to write out the code again!
I nearly got started on the rewrite and more nastiness happened. Guess it’s not my month to do any coding…
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