Drive Crash 4: Now That's What I Call rsync

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Started with backup

 - Unhappy because a drive wasn't plugged in (again)
 - Rebuilt the array
 - Another drive failed
 - Replaced

Meanwhile web

 - Complained of an unhappy drive (SMART Errors)

Attenborough disaster

 - Patching the AV Rack
 - Tom hears a beeping
 - OhShit.jpeg
 - Dead OS drive
 - No problem, we'll bung another drive in
 - After sorting through all the other dead OS drives, we found an healthy (we think) 500GB drive
 - Tried rebuilding onto the new drive
 - Raid status optimal
 - Reboot
 - Raid status degraded
 - Old drive passing SMART tests
 - Bung old drive into server
 - RAID card crashes
 - And again
 - Optimal
 - Degraded
 - Katherine Bell and Hui-Ling Phillips arrive with biscuits
 - RAID card crashes
 - Try rebuild again
 - Phone call to Sam Willcocks who is in sheffield after a job interview in London
 - Discussions about transferring data to Bruce
 - Decision is made to transfer data off of Attenborough to Backup
 - Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack used to compliment the atmosphere (and keep spirits high)
 - Pizza ordered
 - Debian installed on another 500GB drive
 - Given the host name "TomScott" due to the new OS disk being a temporary bodge
 - ZFS pool mounted
 - The rsyncing begins
 - We rsync the most recent (and most important) productions to backup
 - Edwin Barnes starts transferring footage from Pending Edits backup to Edit 2 to edit
 - Tim Bradgate starts working on chron jobs to auto backup