A laptop with a blue BIOS screen reading: Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed The photographer is making a silly surprised face in the screen reflection.

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   Max Goodhart (chromakode@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 17:55:46 JST Max Goodhart

   Yesterday morning, I pulled open my laptop to send a quick email. It had a frozen black screen, so I rebooted it, and… oh crap.

   My 2-year-old SSD had unceremoniously died.

   This was a gut punch, but I had an ace in the hole. I'm typing this from my restored system on a brand new drive.

   In total, I lost about 10 minutes of data. Here's how. (Spoilers: #zfs #zrepl)