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As there was not much else to do other than to wait for files to sync and pray that Backup lived long enough, Tom took this opportunity to go home, have a shower, and change - shortly followed by Katherine and Hui-Ling. Meanwhile, Matt and Tim pulled Backup out of the Computing rack. Upon Tom's return, Tim took his shift of showering and changing and Tom pulled the 2TB drive out of [[Obriain]] to be sacrificed to the great Backup RAID array. Matt and Tom take the opportunity during the rebuild to continue the ongoing attempt to tidy up the studio. | As there was not much else to do other than to wait for files to sync and pray that Backup lived long enough, Tom took this opportunity to go home, have a shower, and change - shortly followed by Katherine and Hui-Ling. Meanwhile, Matt and Tim pulled Backup out of the Computing rack. Upon Tom's return, Tim took his shift of showering and changing and Tom pulled the 2TB drive out of [[Obriain]] to be sacrificed to the great Backup RAID array. Matt and Tom take the opportunity during the rebuild to continue the ongoing attempt to tidy up the studio. | ||
After Tim's return, Tim and Tom continue setting up the media cache while Tom | After Tim's return, Tim and Tom continue setting up the media cache while Tom continued his effort to write the wiki article for the 4<sup>th</sup> in the series of Drive Crashes while the crash unfolded around him. | ||
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[[File:10_All_Is_Well.png]] | [[File:10_All_Is_Well.png]] | ||
=Lessons Learned= | |||
* Keep regular backups | |||
* Don't unplug the servers | |||
** No, that's not a good reason to | |||
** Seriously, they will fail | |||
* Drives cling to life until powered off (mostly) | |||
* Bring biscuits | |||
* Sleep is good | |||
=The Final Fatality= | |||
After returning home to recover from the ordeal, Tom sat down at his desktop to find it frozen. After months of being neglected to be maintained, and several days of being left on, Tom's desktop's OS drive had failed. The final victim of Drive Crash 4. | |||
[[Category:Drive_Crashes]] | [[Category:Drive_Crashes]] | ||