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Lab Fire Bummer
15 years ago
The power supply in my main 3.5ghz 20 terabyte server caught fire on Monday. I'm trying to recover all of that data but may have lost several years of emails and research. Bummer. However, onward through the fog and keep moving forward and all that. Still right now all I can think is, SHIT!!!!
I'd already backed up a lot of that data but, SHIT!!!!! none the less....... Lost all of my saved Furaffinity files. :sad: But there is always a bright light. The lab is filled with a lot of volatile chemicals that can explode if you look at them wrong. Because of that I enclose anything that could possibly be a hazard in it's own case. That confined the fire to the server destroying the drives but, the lab didn't explode. And I have several DVD-ROM backups that with a lot of effort will allow me to at least get a running start on getting the AI I use to help me run the lab (I usually work alone so it's necessary) back to at least a re-learning stage.
It's name is Prometheus by the way. Ironic. 20,000,000,000 bytes of data is a lot but I'm a bit paranoid so I backup frequently. I got an automated CD duplicator a few years back and modified it to do automated DVD-ROM backups of the Linux and Windows systems so it's a start. I guess you do learn from your mistakes. Still, I feel like crying a bit. The AI's high resolution stereoscopic vision system is toast. And the voice synthesis hardware and software is so old I'm probably going to have to redesign them from scratch. Sorry I'm rambling but I'm still really upset and I guess I need to vent a bit.
I'd already backed up a lot of that data but, SHIT!!!!! none the less....... Lost all of my saved Furaffinity files. :sad: But there is always a bright light. The lab is filled with a lot of volatile chemicals that can explode if you look at them wrong. Because of that I enclose anything that could possibly be a hazard in it's own case. That confined the fire to the server destroying the drives but, the lab didn't explode. And I have several DVD-ROM backups that with a lot of effort will allow me to at least get a running start on getting the AI I use to help me run the lab (I usually work alone so it's necessary) back to at least a re-learning stage.
It's name is Prometheus by the way. Ironic. 20,000,000,000 bytes of data is a lot but I'm a bit paranoid so I backup frequently. I got an automated CD duplicator a few years back and modified it to do automated DVD-ROM backups of the Linux and Windows systems so it's a start. I guess you do learn from your mistakes. Still, I feel like crying a bit. The AI's high resolution stereoscopic vision system is toast. And the voice synthesis hardware and software is so old I'm probably going to have to redesign them from scratch. Sorry I'm rambling but I'm still really upset and I guess I need to vent a bit.
