{"id":187,"date":"2012-05-02T01:04:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?p=187"},"modified":"2012-06-26T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T23:46:50","slug":"hard-drive-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Hard drive issues."},"content":{"rendered":"

We lost power two nights ago for some unknown reason. \u00a0It wasn’t raining, snowing, windy or anything else. \u00a0I guess just a random event. \u00a0Either way, when I went to power up my box that collects satellite images, it failed to boot. \u00a0It was a dual-boot box that had Ubuntu loaded. \u00a0Somehow it seemed the boot loader for windows became\u00a0corrupted.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I didn’t have to reinstall windows and my other software…which would likely be several hours of computer hand-holding. \u00a0But, I also did not have any backups made. \u00a0So, the issue now has been what backup software to use. \u00a0There are many out there, but I think I’ll go with Macrium for now. \u00a0They have a free version that will image the drive, which for a computer that only collects data, should be enough. \u00a0At this point, I just want a basic image that I can use in case of disaster. \u00a0I the future I can think about differential updates and such.<\/p>\n

Currently, I’ve shut down data collection and am defragmenting. \u00a0Then I’ll image the drives (one box for seismography, radiation and weather, the other for satellite images.) and keep that safe somewhere. \u00a0My advice, as you have all heard before, is that disaster strikes and a simple plan can keep you out of serious trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We lost power two nights ago for some unknown reason. \u00a0It wasn’t raining, snowing, windy or anything else. \u00a0I guess just a random event. \u00a0Either way, when I went to power up my box that collects satellite images, it failed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nf3v.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}