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1. Greg Grossmeier

   I trusted Ubuntu One, that was my first mistake. Then I trusted it after a reinstall. That was the second. #allmygradschooldocsaregone

   about a year ago from web at San Francisco, California, United States
   • Sumana Harihareswara

     @greg Noooo! Oh my deepest sympathies.

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier Sumana Harihareswara

     @brainwane I'm still in shock, thinking "there must be a harddrive *somewhere* with them on it" :(

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier

     My backup strategy guarded against disk/environmental disasters, but not stupidity. #goneforreal #stillhaveundergraddocs

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier

     Just went through 3 old harddrives: #1 wouldn't spin up, #2 needed tons of e2fsck repairs (without success), and #3 worked but no grad docs

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier

     The post mortem of my backup disaster: http://ur1.ca/9ijig #itslikegradschoolneverhappened

     about a year ago
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     maiki

     It certainly sucks, but remember, the world is beautiful, in part because of its impermanence. Also, you now serve as a…

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier maiki

     @maiki yeah. The wonderful weather today is helping :)

     about a year ago
   • Nathan R. Yergler

     @greg Wait, seriously? Was there an outage, or did reconnecting with a clean install reset your account?

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier Ubuntu One

     Update on U1/backup/Grad School docs fiasco: the @ubuntuone team is going above and beyond to help get my files back. Thanks! #noguarantee

     about a year ago
   • Jonathan Carter

     Never ever trust the "cloud" for your backups. NEVER. EVER.

     about a year ago
   • Greg Grossmeier Jonathan Carter

     It is a little more nuanced than that in my case. It boils down to: a mirror is not a backup. never is a mirror a backup.

     about a year ago