I have this weird horrible luck. I joke about the server blowing up and losing everything and then Dusty looks at the problem and it seemed that it really had
blown up and we had lost everything. Not a huge deal most of the time because we have almost everything backed up on a terrabyte drive, except that drive was
accidentally wiped clean by my mother in law who place her big magnet on the drive on monday, yesterday was the day we planned to reback up everything but the
server died. Seriously if we didn't have horrid luck we would have no luck at all.
Dusty spent all friday night and most of saturday working on the server, trying to retrieve something, anything. You have to understand, we have people who pay to use our server, we have a ton of stuff that can't be replaced at all, I was in tears thinking of what we had lost and who we were going to have to pay back, and then realising that 2-3yrs of hard work for our library was down the drain. Dusty was so frustrated that he left the house, yelling that he wasn't good enough for me and he wasn't sure that he was coming home. Please understand it wasn't just the server the last 3yrs have been a living hell for us, which began with us losing our home because Dusty's employer hadn't paid us for 7 months and owed us over $20,000 in wages. we lived in a garage for 6months and that was the easiest part of the last 3yrs, the server was the last straw. He came home about 4hrs later, he only came home because he had and idea that he wanted to try before he gave up and walked away.
I convinced him to put is aside for the night and we went to bed. He woke up this morning and my brilliant husband managed to get all the data pulled off the drive, it looks right now that we have only lost the stuff we need for our lawsuit to get his past wages that we are still owed, we are taking that as a sign to move on and forget about it.
So long story not so short, it looks like we do have all the clips and all the irreplacable stuff back but the server is going to be down a little longer then we thought. We are sending all the harddrives back for replacements, and we are upgrading them since we were getting close to the 1,200 gigabytes of space we are going to end up with about 3,400 gigabytes and we are getting a new controller card and some other things to assure that this will never ever happen again. We will have back ups, for the back ups, back up.
I only told you guys all of this so you would feel bad for us rather then upset at us almost losing everything and taking longer to get the server up.
Dusty spent all friday night and most of saturday working on the server, trying to retrieve something, anything. You have to understand, we have people who pay to use our server, we have a ton of stuff that can't be replaced at all, I was in tears thinking of what we had lost and who we were going to have to pay back, and then realising that 2-3yrs of hard work for our library was down the drain. Dusty was so frustrated that he left the house, yelling that he wasn't good enough for me and he wasn't sure that he was coming home. Please understand it wasn't just the server the last 3yrs have been a living hell for us, which began with us losing our home because Dusty's employer hadn't paid us for 7 months and owed us over $20,000 in wages. we lived in a garage for 6months and that was the easiest part of the last 3yrs, the server was the last straw. He came home about 4hrs later, he only came home because he had and idea that he wanted to try before he gave up and walked away.
I convinced him to put is aside for the night and we went to bed. He woke up this morning and my brilliant husband managed to get all the data pulled off the drive, it looks right now that we have only lost the stuff we need for our lawsuit to get his past wages that we are still owed, we are taking that as a sign to move on and forget about it.
So long story not so short, it looks like we do have all the clips and all the irreplacable stuff back but the server is going to be down a little longer then we thought. We are sending all the harddrives back for replacements, and we are upgrading them since we were getting close to the 1,200 gigabytes of space we are going to end up with about 3,400 gigabytes and we are getting a new controller card and some other things to assure that this will never ever happen again. We will have back ups, for the back ups, back up.
I only told you guys all of this so you would feel bad for us rather then upset at us almost losing everything and taking longer to get the server up.
again and again!!! 
