Our 1.5 year old iMac 20 is semi-broken and will have to go back for a second visit to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store… this time not under warranty. ($) I think the hard disk has some problems. I had to reinstall the operating system to get it to come back at all, but it is not happy.
All of our photos, music, and documents are backed up, but the one thing I never got around to backing up was the Fiveforks Wiki that held copies of the Histories and FOPAB scans as well as some nice commentary and original text created by Ted and I. It is that unique text that I’m afraid is gone. (We have the FOPABs and original Histories.)
In order to run the WikiMedia software I needed newer technology (PHP5) than what is running on the Mac5 server (PHP4). While I have the databases backed up daily on Mac5, I never did get around to installing the backup routines on the iMac at the house.
This combined with the failure of a Lacie external hard drive (1 year old) about the same time also meant the loss of a lot of the crazy videos the girls have made. The best were burned to DVD, posted on YouTube or Facebook, so we have those, but I know they were disheartened to lose some of their crazy unpublished stuff.
I also lost a large Western Digital external hard drive last year almost exactly after one year. Amazing these two external drives failed within weeks of their 1 year warranty expiration. My two external Seagates any two external Maxtors (at work) have held up well.
All of this makes me question 1) using desktop Macs like servers… running almost 24 hours x 7 days per week and 2) depending on external hard drives to back up the desktops. Still, if I had backed up the Wiki and the videos, I would feel better.
Mac5 may move to a hosted server (non Mac) in the not too distant future.
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I bought DiskWarrior to use on a failing MacBook hard drive. Although Mac OS X would not mount the drive at all, the drive really only failed in certain parts of the disk. After I was able to write software in Linux to retrieve some data, I splurged on DiskWarrior.
I think DiskWarrior saved all the data.
So if you want to give me the drives, I can run DiskWarrior on them and see what happens. Maybe your data is retrievable.
I can copy off files. It was reinstalling the operating system that overwrote some system directories where MySQL data was stored. But thanks for the offer. We will rebuild, and this time back up.