|
Worst one ever - I was running Stacker way back when a 40 MB hard drive was a reasonable size (and expensive). I was working on some code in C++ to turn in for a project due the next day - one worth a large portion of our grade. My stacked file crashed hard, taking all of my work with it. No backups at the time, and a really, really bad grade that semester. Outside of that, I've been pretty blessed to not have any major crashes. The hard drive or system has generally warned me before a crash happened.
I've read the horror stories from others, though. I hope that never happens to me.
Related to this, I remember a customer sending in a tape to have us try to restore the database for their company. Their motor had burned out on their tape drive. We put it in ours and burned out a motor as well. Couldn't figure it out until we opened up the tape casing and saw that the little hook that the tape drives use to pull in the tape had broken off at some point.
|