still fucked

Time Machine won't acknowledge the backup. Migration Utility also won't acknowledge the backup. The sparsebundle is visible, and the package contents can be viewed, but it doesn't mount, reporting "no mountable file systems." Disk Utility says it's not a valid filesystem. Migration Assistant doesn't present it as a source, and neither does Time Machine, including via the "Browse other Time Machine disks..." ctl-click menu option.

The backup was working fine when I didn't fucking need it, or, until the HD on the laptop it was backing up actually crashed.

I'm freaking out a bit here because the only reason this is only a little over a year's worth of lost data so far is because I kept the original 60G HD I replaced in late 2007, and that's still good. So that's only a year's worth of photos and music elements and ideas, and it's a fucking good thing that I at least have some fucking printouts of some of my sheet music that I can type back in, assuming I ever trust any of this crap again ever.

Oh, and in case you think I'm insufficiently paranoid, keeping the old 60G HD around was my third level backup. Time Machine was the first. The second level backup was drag-and-drop of important files to a separate (Windows XP) server with separate harddrive, all on separate hardware, a backup which is also fucked, thanks to that HD developing physical sector errors en masse. (That backup was also old, but WHAT THE FUCK?!)

Good thing I kept four to five copies of everything or I'd really be fucked! More than I am, I mean.

eta: go go gadget finder text wrapping

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Good afternoon.

No backup and no files makes solarbird FUCKING INSANE. But here are a couple of notes for you.

First, the New York Times, senile old wretch that it is, has finally figured out financial looting; "the bottom line is the same: given an incentive to loot, Wall Street did so." They're still in the "we still have to bail them out" mode, of course; just as with the de facto suspension of the Constitution and torture regime of the Bush administration, they want to "move forward," but at least they're acknowledging the crime. That's good, because it ties in well with actual hearings coming on the actual underlying financial fraud that created this mess. These are small steps forward.

A lot of people are talking about January sales being down only 0.1%, instead of the expected 0.4%. However, most of that is gasoline price rise - exclude that, and sales came in pretty much on expectations, -0.4%. Initial jobless claims rose a bit; continuing claims were also up to 5.317 million.

And, of course, the rally continues on Wall Street - but you don't need me to tell you that.

That's all for now; good luck, and if you're around here, anyway, enjoy the freakishly gorgeous weather.