https://www.jtalbot.com/tags/backups/ Recent content in Backups on jtalbot/blog Hugo en-US Copyright 2005-2026 jtalbot - CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/tis-the-season-for-data-recovery/ Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:30:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/tis-the-season-for-data-recovery/ <p>I was updating some <a href="https://id3.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ID3 tags</a> on a few songs today when I got an error saving the new tag. The mounted file system to my music share had become read-only. I checked the exports file on my server. It was read-write. I checked my fstab. Everything looked good. I checked the file system itself on the server. Trouble. One of my drives had failed moments earlier. Luckily, the array was configured for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RAID-5</a>, so no data was lost, but it&rsquo;s still going to take a long time to rebuild it.</p>