One of my UPSs demonstrated that it wasn’t up to the task anymore. I’m pretty sure it was only supporting one machine. Anyway a power fluxuation hit and the machine reboot, however when it never really came back up. Hard drive fried. Of course this is the server so I’ve for all intents and purposes fallen off the Internet. No email, no webpage. This may be my only presence on the Intenet right now.

I have backups that are a few months old which isn’t too bad, but until proven otherwise I’ve lost address book updates, party mailing list updates, version 2 of the Nephilim’s Song source book (I have a hard copy though), a few months of email, and a couple of 1-2 page things I’ve written. Nothing horrendous, but if I have to redo Neph Song I’m going to be sad.

So tonight I’ll have to get another UPS and harddrive, build a Debian system and see if I can read any of the drive. Hopefully I’ll be able to read the /home partion and grab the important stuff. /var, extracting the contents of a MySql db would be nice as well.

I really need to set up a rsync or mirrored drive to protect against this stuff.

Hopefully I should be able to get back online soon as I have outstanding email conversations.