June 7th, 2001:

tape drive was broken.
put tape in new box.
found lots of diskspace.
ran:

dd if=/dev/rmt0a bs=128k | tar -xvf- opt/mysql/data2

this will take a while.
i’ll figure out what to do with the data later.
going home now.

blech.

# dd if=/dev/rmt0a bs=128k of=/usr/youpieceofshit

# cd /usr
# ls -lart
...
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 4944384000 Jun 7 15:44 youpieceofshit
#

I have a backup tape of unknown block-size. The back up tape was made using tar. Anyone know how to get it off?

Text message me and I’ll call you back.

(my day just keeps getting worse)

I found the backup tape. I don’t have a spare drive though.

Yup. The drive is bad. Going to find a new drive and then head back to the office to get the backup tape and then come back here to restore the data.

The only way this day could get worse would be if I stepped in a pile of dogshit on my way back to the truck.

*cross your fingers*

Could today get any worse?

I am in the equipment room watching an fsck run on the remaining good drives. Yes… REMAINING good drives. One of them died. I am not entirely sure what was on it… hopefully nothing important, though, since it was one of the 9GB drives on this machine I seriously doubt it was just extra unused diskspace.

What really sucks is that this machine has gone for about two years without anyone touching it… and then last weekend we went and moved it into the equipment room and look what happens. Just my luck. And… like I said… it has gone two years without anyone touching it… meaning… NO BACKUPS.

Yeah I know… “Bad Daniel for not making a backup”… but I didn’t have time. I made one backup when the system started…. ages ago… and the data hasn’t changed since then…. but still… it is old… I should have a newer one. And… i don’t even remember what I used to get it on the tape… in order to get it off again… or if this system will even boot.

….

The system booted. The lost drive contained about 20% of the important data. *sigh* Guess I’ll go find that backup tape.

I knew today wasn’t going to be a good day. I just knew it.

*sigh*

All the crap is fixed. My pager stopped going off. I have showered.

I guess I should get dressed and go to work now.

My pager went off nice and early this morning. Stupid file system full because MySQL decided it can no longer do something it used to do with no problems unless I lock the tables first. And… because the script was dying, the temp files were never cleaned up, so, overnight, the /tmp file system filled up… meaning several feeds are now non-operational. Sure… it is an easy fix… but I hate getting 20-30 phone calls, 10-15 pages, and 10-15 pieces of email all because of one stupid little problem.

• Call Grapevine PD
  
• Call Lawyer
  
• Pay Bills
  
• Compute Brad’s Bill
  
• Write out expense report
  
• Send email to Caren
  
• Make dentist appointment
  
• Cancel my PayMyBills.com account because I don’t use it.