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Originally Posted by sydmalicious
Do you have any nightmarish scenarios you've had to deal with, overcome, or recover from?
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I've only had one major disaster, now many years in the past.
Back in the days when hard disk were very expensive, I was upgrading to a bigger hard disk. I copied all my data from the old hard disk to the new hard disk, and it all looked fine. And then, for reasons I can no longer remember, I wiped the first hard disk.
It was only then I found out that Mac OS (at that time) didn't do verification on hard disk to hard disk copies, and there was some problem with the SCSI connectors/termination such that (roughly) one byte in every thousand was now zero....
I could, of course, just reinstall the system software and all the applications. But my email database, and all my source code now had random NUL bytes scattered through it.
I was lucky that the corruption was to NUL bytes, and not to random bytes, as that meant that the corruption was obvious, and could be relatively easily found and patched. But for some years I did find occasional old emails that needed fixing to remove the NUL byte that terminated them prematurely.