The MacDeskBlog

This weekend, I finally decided to get around to setting up hot backups of the three drives which house MacDesktops.com, with the OS on one drive, the site files on a second, and the web logs written to a third. Not a moment too soon, as it turned out. Less than 48 hours after the disk duplications finished, the disk containing the sites started acting oddly. I waited until after dinner to investigate. After rebooting the server, that disk refused to mount. Disk Utility then reported that the driver header was corrupt and was unable to repair it. I think the disk duplication was the final straw for the drive.

Joy.

Fortunately, I happen to have three spare drives laying around from my previous server building efforts a couple of years ago. So I popped in one of those. After about two minutes, it crashed the server. “Oh yeah” my memory chimed in, “one of those servers crashed and burned. That’s the other bad disk.” After swapping disk drives again, it looks like I finally have good drives. And even better, the machine now longer has that Quantum Atlas drive which sounded like a screaming cheetah.

“Sleep is for the dead.” Or something like that.