Earlier in the month, I noticed that for some reason server ‘auto backups’ were not occuring, with the last one being 20 Dec 2014.  Upon investigation, I found that not only could I not mount /dev/sdc/ , the backup drive,  but fdisk -l |grep Disk wouldn’t even list it.  So, I figured that the drive died, so I ordered another 2 TB drive.  I also ordered a spare 250GB IDE drive.

Yesterday, I was going to prep and replace /dev/sdc.  I found that after a reboot, the server not only recognized the backup drive, but its data seemed intact, with the exception of the last sys partition backup.  So, I immediately did another fresh, full sys partition backup.

Well, at least now, I have a spare 2GB data drive, as well as a spare 250GB boot drive (the current one is only 200GB) onsite.  Could have been worse, I imagine.  😉