Whoops!

[aimstolemylife]

What's the worst data loss you've ever had?

I'm my school's student/techie-intern and I was working on a ASIP server and accidentally overwrote the wrong folder that a teacher just spend $260 recovering off of an old broken HD. Needless to say things have been tense between us.

I guess I don't get to play with the new Lacie 800gb server =(


Any similar horror stories?

[jaboua]

Not THAT bad, however somewhere in the middle of LFS I formatted my drive... I forgot my lfs project was still on the drive, I thought I had it on an other partition!

[bryansmith]

I lost all my school work (almost one term's worth of lecture notes and readings) last week. Needless to say I paniced but managed to recover it. Phew!

Bryan

[onlinebacon]

hmmm......
Well the worst thing is my school keeps all my records on a unpatched windows 2003 server!!!

[winter]

hmmm......
Well the worst thing is my school keeps all my records on a unpatched windows 2003 server!!!

youll soon see evry file being replaced by the image of a woman shocked at a computer, while the caption says"omg, j00 h4\/3 b33n h4x0rd'. needless to say its a desaster waiting to happen. Then again when it comes to nt patching.....danmed if ye dont, danmed if ye do.

I remeber an incident when we applied 48 volts to my friends hard drive...he did dare me, put it this way he did not find it funny then but he finds it funny now

[fingal]

I was working on my final year dissertation at university and living in a hall of residence. I'd just written about 1,500 words when there was a power cut and I lost my work. I had plenty of backup copies, but I had to re-write those 1,500 words from memory.

Someone in my year lost her entire dissertation. All 10,000 words. It was due in the following week and she had to rewrite it from scratch, piecing it together from her notes. Her hard drive crashed ... I didn't get the full story from her: she was too upset. She had backup copies - all on her hdd.

So make backups. My friend (who was very hard working and deserved a good degree) got a lower mark than she should have because she lost her work.

[bryansmith]

So make backups. My friend (who was very hard working and deserved a good degree) got a lower mark than she should have because she lost her work.

I have learned that one. The funny thing is that I thought about doing it just before I lost all my work. It's backed up now .

Remember people, stuff like this can happen to anyone...even people who know how to use a computer.

Bryan

[techieMoe]

Thankfully any of my important work (as in things I do for a living) are kept backed up on our version control system here, so the source code doesn't actually live on my workstation.

As for at home... I don't do real work there, and when I do anything I want to save I make redundant, iterative physical backups (CDRs, DVDRs). The only things I really miss are usually my Rollercoaster Tycoon savegames.

[a thing]

Backup stuff to a tarball and some things weren't there when I unpacked it. Not so bad.

[kbk]

My HDD has crashed and burned countless times. The worst one was probably the first time Winblows went down before I really knew anything at all about computers, I had my HDD (80 gig) full to the brim and I lost it all.