Lightning-fried disk

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 28 08:25:14 PST 2003


On 28-Oct-2003 peterg at ptree32.com.au wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  The Friday night lightning storm did indeed take out my
> main drive. Unless I can get it restored somehow, it's 
> going to be development from memory - unfortunately I
> had a bit of stuff not checked in (loadable modules, works
> in the most recent snapshot! syscons, and a half-done BMAC
> driver) and not backed up :-( :-(

Might I suggest using the projects/powerpc tree in p4 and
checking your stuff in there so that it is backed up in the
future and also so that you have version control on your
changes so it is easier to get back changes you revert, etc.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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