Of the three hard disk drives I have sitting around running at any one time, the one I’m most worried about dying is the one that holds my photo archive.<\/p>\n
We had a thunderstorm last week that caused a power outage at the house.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything came back up just fine, except for the drive that holds my photo archive (natch).\u00c2\u00a0 I was absolutely flipping out, but quietly, and in such a way that Leah wouldn’t start flipping out too.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a CD backup of all my photos from 2002 to July 2005, but I would’ve still been missing all of last Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, our 2005 trip to Grand Marais…lots of great stuff.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Kevin was in town this past weekend, so I was able to bounce some ideas off him.\u00c2\u00a0 By the time he left on Sunday, I’d pretty much resigned myself to shelling out $100 for data recovery software<\/a> to see if I could pull anything off of what I thought at the time was a flaky drive.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I got out my debit card, though, I took apart the enclosure that housed the troublesome drive and moved the drive to a different enclosure.\u00c2\u00a0 After powering up the drive, there were my missing files!\u00c2\u00a0 I hurried in to tell Leah, who was on the phone with a friend, and she was so excited she gave me a high five.\u00c2\u00a0 While I was excited too, I told her there would be no more high fiving in our house.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever.<\/p>\n So it looks like I have an enclosure with a bad FireWire port on it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve contacted the company<\/a> I bought it from to see whether they’ll honor their 1-year warranty.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime, I think I’ll see if I can get the enclosure to work using the USB2.0 interface.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say, the second I got the drive running, I created<\/a> a tar.gz archive of my albums folder.\u00c2\u00a0 Alas, it comes to something like 4.46GB, which is about .1 GB or so over the capacity of a blank DVD-R disc.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll have to create a couple smaller archives and back them up separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Of the three hard disk drives I have sitting around running at any one time, the one I’m most worried about dying is the one that holds my photo archive. We had a thunderstorm last week that caused a power outage at the house.\u00c2\u00a0 Everything came back up just fine, except for the drive that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-misc","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-6T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}