What happened to the Wool Jersey?
06-27-09, 08:09 PM
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What happened to the Wool Jersey?
I just hit my Wool Jersey bookmark and came up with this...
https://peoplepc-finder.com/main?AddI...p&SearchQuery=
I feel sad.
https://peoplepc-finder.com/main?AddI...p&SearchQuery=
I feel sad.
06-27-09, 08:29 PM
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server crashed early last weekend. webmaster is aware and is trying to get it fixed.
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06-28-09, 06:56 AM
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There have been problems since budget cuts forced NASA to auction off all the leftover gear from the Gemini program and Wool Jersey decided to go toto retro.
06-28-09, 08:04 AM
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This was posted by Morgan Fletcher (Wool Jersey's webmaster) on the Classic Rendezvous mailing list on 6/22/09:
Sorry to post this so broadly, but I want to let you know that
https://www.wooljersey.com/gallery is down right now, has been for a couple
days I think. (I was camping this weekend.) Things don't look good right
now, will post more when I have more information from the hosting company.
I'm aware of it and will work on getting the server running again if I can.
Sorry to post this so broadly, but I want to let you know that
https://www.wooljersey.com/gallery is down right now, has been for a couple
days I think. (I was camping this weekend.) Things don't look good right
now, will post more when I have more information from the hosting company.
I'm aware of it and will work on getting the server running again if I can.
06-29-09, 01:29 PM
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apparently the hard drive on the server died and there was no backup. If he gets the hard drive recovered, somebody send him an extra $50 for a backup drive.
06-29-09, 01:47 PM
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Morgan posted to CR today that the drive had indeed crashed and it is at a data recovery service. In a personal note from him, he indicated recovery could run as high as $1500. Does not surprise me as my neighbor shelled out over $700 for her records from her drive. He says he is going to use an online backup service in the future.
To help defray the costs, please consider a contribution via Paypal. I know I have spent hours perusing the photos on Wool Jersey and consider it a small price to pay for the pleasure it has given me.
Morgan's PayPal ID is morgan@hahaha.org
To help defray the costs, please consider a contribution via Paypal. I know I have spent hours perusing the photos on Wool Jersey and consider it a small price to pay for the pleasure it has given me.
Morgan's PayPal ID is morgan@hahaha.org
06-29-09, 03:48 PM
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Morgan posted to CR today that the drive had indeed crashed and it is at a data recovery service. In a personal note from him, he indicated recovery could run as high as $1500. Does not surprise me as my neighbor shelled out over $700 for her records from her drive. He says he is going to use an online backup service in the future.
To help defray the costs, please consider a contribution via Paypal. I know I have spent hours perusing the photos on Wool Jersey and consider it a small price to pay for the pleasure it has given me.
Morgan's PayPal ID is morgan@hahaha.org
To help defray the costs, please consider a contribution via Paypal. I know I have spent hours perusing the photos on Wool Jersey and consider it a small price to pay for the pleasure it has given me.
Morgan's PayPal ID is morgan@hahaha.org
If the drive gets recovered, 50 gigs... ouch. could well be more than $1,500. Hopefully folk who posted to the site have some back-ups, this could be equal to a library burning.
07-04-09, 08:45 AM
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A bump for this. No affiliation with WJ other than I use and enjoy it. Help Morgan out if you can.
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PSA mode off.
07-04-09, 02:44 PM
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Yep, I had a PC last year where the drive crashed. Best price to recover the lost data was $900. There was nothing on it that justified paying the price to recover it so I destroyed the disk drive and started over.
07-05-09, 06:26 AM
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You can get very good data recovery programs for free....no need to pay someone else to do it. Just stick the drive in the freezer for a bit, plug it in, run the program quick before it heats up, and get what you can
07-05-09, 10:26 AM
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Was he hosting the site on a server at his own home? Otherwise, I'm surprised the hosting company Wooljersey was on doesn't do nightly backups.
07-05-09, 10:55 AM
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IMO any hosting company that does not backup at least every 24 hours and/or use a multiple drive RAID system with real time auto backup and redundency is incompetent.
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07-23-09, 02:30 PM
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Any news on this?
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From reports by Morgan, a week or two and most if it will be back. The implication is that he will be changing where it gets hosted, and the how of signing up, and loading information, maybe more DIY.
The ongoing hosting costs were not answered, maybe not resolved.
The ongoing hosting costs were not answered, maybe not resolved.
07-23-09, 03:42 PM
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the good news is that "the community" of folks who used Wool Jersey (the CR list and this one right here) kicked up more than enough money to cover the data retrieval cost. If you contributed you know that 'cause Morgan sent thank-you emails to everybody, I believe.
Hope it all comes back, soon, it sounds like at least 90% can be retrieved, and maybe all.
EDIT: Here's late-breaking quotation from Morgan's Data Recovery Service:
"Given the damaged state of the drive, we were very pleased to accomplish a
recovery that appears to be about 95% complete. The cause of the drive
failure cannot be determined with certainty, but a power fluctuation
(black-out, brown-out or surge) would be the most likely cause."
he'd says he'd still take donations for future hosting costs but the "crisis" is over and he should have it back up in "a week or 2", there's still some reconstruction and configuration that he has to do, by hand.
Hope it all comes back, soon, it sounds like at least 90% can be retrieved, and maybe all.
EDIT: Here's late-breaking quotation from Morgan's Data Recovery Service:
"Given the damaged state of the drive, we were very pleased to accomplish a
recovery that appears to be about 95% complete. The cause of the drive
failure cannot be determined with certainty, but a power fluctuation
(black-out, brown-out or surge) would be the most likely cause."
he'd says he'd still take donations for future hosting costs but the "crisis" is over and he should have it back up in "a week or 2", there's still some reconstruction and configuration that he has to do, by hand.
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07-23-09, 03:59 PM
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Depending on the hosting company, backup of data may be an extra cost item. I know it is an option where my photos are hosted, so I have multiple backups in multiple locations elsewhere. Morgan is self-flagellating over not backing up.
