[ooo-build] annarchy.freedesktop.org is wiped out

[Kohei Yoshida]

This is certainly bad news for some people.

As these blog entries summarize, a series of catastrophic power failures
in Portland State University where freedesktop.org is hosted pretty much
wiped out the personal home directories (and other things such as
anongit etc).

http://ajaxxx.livejournal.com/62015.html
http://www.fooishbar.org/blog/tech/fdo/psuPowerFail-2009-10-01-03-43.html

The bad news is that they don't have backups, as they apparently decided
not to back up home directories.  So, what's gone is gone, permanently.

The good news is that, at least for me, what I had in my home directory
was just two personal git repositories, and as you are probably already
aware, it's easy to recover git repositories since you already have
"backups" on your machine.  So, for me this accident was not that
catastrophic.  But of course other stuff that's not in personal git repo
is gone for good... :-(

Anyways, just FYI...

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc.
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