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Holy Disk Crash!

November 25th, 2006 by The Oracle Alchemist

It’s funny, right after writing The Day the DB Died, the American Pie parody about a DBA that loses their database and their job due to not having backups…the disk dies on my non-backed-up dedicated server that houses this website. Oracle Alchemist was down for a while, but he wasn’t out.

Got a fresh drive put in, reinstalled the OS, mounted the failed drive (/tmp was corrupted) and copied everything back over…voila! Lead into gold, the Alchemist lives to blather on aimlessly another day.

Anyways, sorry for the inconvenience to anyone affected by this horrible and dire tragedy.

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