Completely recovered from my hard drive crash. I had a back up, but it was a couple weeks old and I had some new photos on it, and it didn't included my music collection (most of which is mirrored at work), so I thought I would dig into the f'ed up drive and see what I could see. THANK YOU KNOPPIX! Knoppix has now saved my ass for the second time. Throw the Knoppix CD, boot, transfer your shit to a FAT32 (ntfs goes boom) drive (or in my case, 4 32GB FAT32 drives), then boogie on back to Windows and see what you have left. VERY easy, very nice.
So... I came up with a new backup strategy. This will work until I build my own backup server or finally realize that it make more sense just to buy one of those Buffalo goddamnits.
1) 80GB USB2 external drive - Holds music backup
2) 300GB USB2 external drive - Holds backup, and big files I'm considering moving to DVD (movies and shit)
3) 120GB USB2 external drive - Holds copy of the current backup and shit I can't figure out where else to put
Incremental backups occur weekly as a scheduled task (WHERE IS MY CRON?!?!?!!).
I'm fucking tired of spending a weekend fixing shit every time I lose a Seagate drive (yes, every major crash I have had has been a Seagate drive), so I am spreading files everywhere now.
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