Back it up!

It has been quite on this blog for quite a while now. In the beginning of May I suffered a harddisk crash, that took out my system partition. That in it self was not a problem, as all my data was sitting on a separate partition, however what I soon realised was that there was one bit of data that I had foolishly put on the system partition and not backed up properly: my filesystem keys!!! You see, my data sits on a number of encrypted partitions, which are encrypted with a string of random characters (called a key). The key itself is encrypted with a password. So even though I still know the password to my keys, I have lost the actual keys and that means I cannot access my data anymore. The biggest problem was that this included all my e-mails and e-mail addresses, I have slowly managed to get a lot of the address back from memory and from other people, but I am still about 50 addresses short. So if you read this and know someone who knows me, please can I have their email address.

The moral of this story:

Back your data up and make sure you back everything up!

However I have my computer back up and running (minus the lost data) and my exams are finished, so I have some blog postings in the draft folder and hope to soon get around to publishing them. If you can think of anything interesting for me to write about, please let me know I am always looking for ideas.