Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A long day

It took a while, but I've managed to save nearly all my data and software. I lost three files: eudorastatistics.xml; a Firefox cache file; and Limewire.

The hard drive that choked also contained my OS 9 files. I saved some stuff for posterity and reformatted the drive. Even better, I used that drive and the new drive I plugged in to make a RAID. (A RAID is a process by which identical data lies on two or more hard drives, thus providing data security through redundancy and faster hard drive reading/writing.) I've always wanted a RAID, and now I can blow off that furshlugginer Carbon Copy Cloner.

Having saved my data on a different partition, I'm now copying what I saved over to the RAID (I chose a dinosaur name this time). My Mac tells me there are 34 minutes to go.

I also saved OS 10.3.9 system files, which are going on the RAID. The permissions on these files are undoubtedly screwy and I'm not going to even try to start up with that system, but I hope that my upgrade to OS 10.4 will accept these remnants as valid. If not, I can do a clean installation of 10.4 and re-install what applications I'll need to and update preference and whatnot. No big deal, just more time.

I have remained remarkably calm through this process, much to my surprise and even more so, I'm guessing, to Elvi.

2 Comments:

Blogger shecanfilmit said...

Congratulations! I read your last post with a sinking, "been there, done that" feeling.

January 31, 2007 1:23 AM  
Blogger Elvi said...

Yeah, I don't know if you've mellowed with age or you were just too stunned to freak out, but I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. I guess I can stop waiting now...

January 31, 2007 9:35 AM  

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