still fucked
Mar. 12th, 2009 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdTime 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
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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Re: go, finder text wrapping
Date: 2009-03-12 06:14 pm (UTC)Sorry the gremlins gotcha.