We’re back. The invincible Xcomputerman.NET has once again been snatched from the jaws of certain death. Here’s how it all went down…

About a month ago, I received a text message from Ben at NerdSystems.com saying that he couldn’t access the server all day.

Long story short — I went back and forth with tech support all day, and eventually found out that the hard drive had failed crapped out spectacularly.

I didn’t have backups. I quietly resigned to fate. Three years worth of email archives for my entire family. Web sites. Blogs. Photographs. Friend’s web sites. All kinds of little things. All gone. Forever.

I had no time to mourn. Work was kicking my butt and midterms were upon me. As soon as the hard drive had been replaced, I just quickly setup Postfix to start receiving mail again, and put it all aside.

A week later I received the failed hard drive package. I hooked it up, and it spouted out all kinds of 0×40 UncorrectableError messages. Fate confirmed. My data was surely done for.

Nearly three weeks later, I decided to try again. To my surprise it
booted up without incident. Incredulous at my sudden good fortune, I proceeded to mount the drive read-only. Within a couple of hours I had copied everything of value off it and onto my home PC’s hard drive.

The rest is history. Xcomputerman.com is back, and so is everything else. Emails and all. It is a good day. Rejoice, people. Rejoice.

Posted by ibukun on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pm.

We’re back. The invincible Xcomputerman.NET has once again been snatched from the jaws of certain death. Here’s how it all went down…

About a month ago, I received a text message from Ben at NerdSystems.com saying that he couldn’t access the server all day.

Long story short — I went back and forth with tech support all day, and eventually found out that the hard drive had failed crapped out spectacularly.

I didn’t have backups. I quietly resigned to fate. Three years worth of email archives for my entire family. Web sites. Blogs. Photographs. Friend’s web sites. All kinds of little things. All gone. Forever.

I had no time to mourn. Work was kicking my butt and midterms were upon me. As soon as the hard drive had been replaced, I just quickly setup Postfix to start receiving mail again, and put it all aside.

A week later I received the failed hard drive package. I hooked it up, and it spouted out all kinds of 0×40 UncorrectableError messages. Fate confirmed. My data was surely done for.

Nearly three weeks later, I decided to try again. To my surprise it
booted up without incident. Incredulous at my sudden good fortune, I proceeded to mount the drive read-only. Within a couple of hours I had copied everything of value off it and onto my home PC’s hard drive.

The rest is history. Xcomputerman.com is back, and so is everything else. Emails and all. It is a good day. Rejoice, people. Rejoice.

Posted by ibukun on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 1:37 pm.