Posts on ‘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 [...]

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 [...]

*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 [...]

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