A few months ago, both of the RAID-5 volumes in my Linux box went splut, as is wont to happen here at Pixy Central. Through the use of Vile Necromancy, I was able to reconstitute the volumes even though they had suffered multiple disk failures.

When I tried to back them up, though, they went splut again.

Anyways, I have this new wizzy Linux box here with a terabyte of disk* and I have - oh look - a terabyte of splut filesystems on my old Linux box. So I can just copy them across† and then I can manually unsplut the old system the easy way.‡ Only problem is, the /pixy⊗ volume goes splut clunk and dies when you try to read a lot of stuff (600GB, say) from it, so I decided to back up the /misa⊕ volume first.

Except I had a brain fart and typed in /pixy anyway.

And it's working. 390GB copied successfully so far. No spluts, no clunks. I think it hasn't yet noticed that I'm copying the Filesystem That Cannot Be Copied™ so I will tiptoe quietly away and leave it to its work.

Oh, and I just ran across Pixy's Tip of the Day for December 21, 2003. Thanks a lot, me. Though it ain't that easy to find old, reliable, well-supported PCI Express cards just yet. I thought an X600 would be reasonably safe - and maybe it's the card itself at fault. Yay for console mode, anyway.

And you know what? I still haven't played Knights of the Old Republic. I've even got the sequel now, and I haven't played the original. Considering that I've only recently caught up with games that came out in 2001, I may be a while yet.

Update: Did about 490GB before it splutted. Oh well.

* Yeah, I know I said 500GB. Well, I was walking past the computer store, and these little voices started calling out to me, and the next thing I knew...
† rsync over ssh using blowfish, 17MB/s. Not too shabby.
‡ Wipe the bugger clean and reinstall.
⊗ Yeah, /pixy.
⊕ Of course.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:32 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)