On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 10:32 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Fortunately, I keep backups and what not, but I am currently > sending this email from my laptop and I will likely loose the next day > to two days to the task of reinstalling from scratch, then restoring > from backup (even as I write this, my laptop is writing a Fedora 27 Beta > USB boot key). Joy! The story of what I had to do this last week is worthy of telling over a beer some time. Suffice it to say, I'm mostly back up and operational at this point. The "I have backups" turned out to be "I have backups that are looking right now like they are 2 years old" until I found the root cause and was finally able to get to the current backups. And there was another incident and another drive got fried (I will never buy mixed brands of modular power supplies ever again). And I shipped the two drives that were actual rotational drives (I originally said four SSDs, I was incorrect in that, I had forgotten that the 4 drive caddy that got fried was actually 3 SSDs and one laptop hard drive, then the 5th drive to get fried was a 3 1/2" internal sata drive) off for possible controller replacement (not to the manufacturer, but to a company that specializes in replacing bad controller boards for a flat rate fee), but they didn't have any spare boards to fit my 3 1/2" drive, they said it was too new and there was no inventory on its controller yet. Still waiting to hear on the other one. And even if they have a controller board, there's no guarantee that any data on the drive will be retrievable, thanks to my 4 year old. He was home sick with strep throat last Thursday, but I'd given him some tylenol and his antibiotic and even treated him to a small mocha from starbucks (yes, he likes chocolate flavored coffee), and I had inadvertently forgotten to get him decaf, so he was full of energy and happy, and I was sitting at my computer printing out the paperwork to ship off the two rotational drives, and he says to me "Daddy, these work really well here!" and I look over and he's got two magnets off of the kitchen refrigerator and each hard drive has one magnet sitting on its metal top cover. So who knows if those things are even recoverable at all at this point. This happened *before* I found the root cause to my missing backups. So you can imagine how happy I was when I saw those magnets :-/. Anyway, I'm going to be processing patches over the next few days. I didn't want people thinking that I wasn't aware of the time and the upcoming merge window, I'm still tracking it as best as I can while I rebuild everything ;-)
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