Friday
Feb082008
Once Bitten....
Friday, February 8, 2008 at 3:43PM 
Really good day today.Final stages of producing the show, all edited, just making the final encoded versions on my nice new speedy machine, all nicely whizzing along and then...
Bang!
The mains tripped out!
Damm!
Ah well, just reboot and restart the encoding, no big deal. Except, on reboot, the MacPro can't see the nice big RAID partition across the three drives. It can see the drives OK but the RAID partition is broken. Then the slow realisation that all of the mornings work finishing off the show was on that RAID partition.
Crap!
No amount of coaxing would bring the partition back. At this point you're probably saying, well it was all backed up right? Well it was, at least until last night. I do two backups of the RAID every day and I was able to recover from last night but it still meant I lost a mornings work.
And the moral of the story is...
Just ordered two UPS devices from Amazon, 1 for the G5 and external RAID, the other for the MacPro. Thank goodness for Amazon Prime - free next day delivery!
Reader Comments (1)
Don -- You should do a show about this. Also, you could include info about RAID setups. Alot of people think a RAID guarantees against data loss.