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Restored
October 04th, 2018
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The restoration of gopher.black was quite eventful with some
absolutely awful computer drama. If you care about such things,
here's a recap:
I have a few raspberry pis, model 3s and some zero Ws. One of them
has this sick metal case with a fan. It's a beast. Used that
hardware for gopher.black along with a 64gb micro sd card. The
only problem is, the fan sucks (or blows?). It has always been
really noisy, and it eventually pissed me off enough to do
something about it. Since the pis don't run hot anyway, I figured
it was unnecessary. But before I removed it completely I figured
I'd try lubricating it just in case that solved things.
It didn't.
So I opened the case up, ripped that bad boy out, and plugged her
back in. Only this time, something was wrong. I was up and
running, but the system was in read-only mode. Uh, oh! I decided
to reboot and try again. This time, even worse... no boot.
I plugged in an HDMI monitor to watch the boot sequence and it
sprawled a bunch of messages about read-only crap. A quick google
revealed that my SD card was likely at fault. It was going bad.
I assume it was related to me opening the thing up and closing it
a few times. I must have bumped it badly.
If the card was read-only, I figured I could still read it to get
an image. I did some dd magic and backed it up. Today I got a new
64GB sd card in the mail. I dd'd my backup onto that and plugged
it in but nothing happened. Not even a failed boot. Just nada.
I thought... Lets make sure it's the SD card! So I swapped my SD
card from my pi-hole and gopher.black into the other hardware and
confirmed... definitely the SD. I had to roll back to an earlier
backup.
The most recent I had was from June (yuck). Luckily, 90% of the
crap on gopher.black is in git, so it's just a matter of updating
from repos after restoring things. I smiled to myself at my own
awesome and went over to my PC which houses the older backups.
I plugged in my new SD card, opened up Etcher to image it from the
backup and POOF, the MOTHERFUCKING drive hosting my backups
decided that it was the perfect moment to disappear!
Fast forward a bit to me restoring that drive from ITS backup,
eventually restoring my SD card from the old backup, plugging
things into the pi, booting it up, and we're back in business.
Things that still suck:
- Moku Pona is running again, but pretty much EVERYTHING updated
since June, so the most recent phlogs is kinda a mess. It'll
sort itself out in the days to come.
- All my web certs expired. I'm renewing them again now via
acme.sh.
- Weechat's sec.conf does something weird. It doesn't know my
master password. I have no idea what logic it uses, but this is
the second time that's happened to me in a week. I appreciate
that it externalizes passwords, but that's just BS. I'm better
off typing them in each time I connect. It's not like I do it
very often.
- Probably other stuff... I don't really recall everything I did
on gopher.black over the last couple months. I'm sure most of it
was content, but maybe there was something else that was super
cool and I totally forgot. Meh, we'll make due.
If you notice anything wonky on my stuff in the next couple days,
hit me up.
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