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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. |