Im back home from my little vacation. Tired, relaxed, had a great time. One thing I did notice was that my server had not responded when I tried to get in earlier. I know it had crashed (which is typical, the hardware is dying). But once in a while, it does not restart properly. I figured this to be the case. So, when I got home, I went to see that the server had in fact locked up upon reboot, as it has happened before. Reset. It starts booting again. I hear that ever-not-so-welcome sound of harddrive death clicks. Ugh! Yup, the 180G /store partition, where I keep EVERYTHING of importance to me, died! AGAIN! I just do NOT have luck with harddrives! It was also the live area for /var/spool (therefore mail), and /home since it is acting as failover for my other dead server, qix. I am SO thankful that I had gone out and purchased a 120G drive when I was still unemployed as a backup for this data. Every time I secure a backup, the primary dies. I am also so lucky that I had just performed (manually) a FULL rsync of the entire machine to said 120G drive just the night before, Fri night, before I left for my vacation. So, I lost maybe 28 hours worth of mail and what not. The rest of the mail was queueing up on swift at PickNet. After dropping the backup drive in place, it came back up and is running just as before. I also just filled out the RMA for this drive. They have me on file there, I didn't even have to type my address. I am so getting tired of shipping dead drives off to them! Now I need another backup. I hate running with no backup!