can't happen to me. Naw, not me. (Cautionary note)
My in-warranty laptop turned bricklike Tuesday. (Warranty expires Dec 12)
On it was everything Propeller, 8 months of mail and photos and sundry debris of dsl life.
Fortunately, data recovery was possible, resulting in 4 dvds and -$95 service charge. Now to mail it to warranty repairshop.
So, when was the last time you backed up your 'important' data?
Ps. Now I am proud owner of a dead-cheap ($480) ACER vista notebook,·which once I port·my favorites·will be almost a drop-in replacement.·Still to be seen: whether IDE and Prop work here -- though I have faith and no fears.·
On it was everything Propeller, 8 months of mail and photos and sundry debris of dsl life.
Fortunately, data recovery was possible, resulting in 4 dvds and -$95 service charge. Now to mail it to warranty repairshop.
So, when was the last time you backed up your 'important' data?
Ps. Now I am proud owner of a dead-cheap ($480) ACER vista notebook,·which once I port·my favorites·will be almost a drop-in replacement.·Still to be seen: whether IDE and Prop work here -- though I have faith and no fears.·
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Basically I forgot which drive was plugged in when I went back to the Linux install and formated and installed Linux right over my Windows hard drive. when I switched the hard drive cables back to the other drive I had realized what I had done but it was too late. I had lost all the original SpinStudio CAD files and all other work that I had done to that point. Right before Christmas. That was one reason for the delay between anouncing SpinStudio back in December last year, and it finally being released this summer. The other reason is now crawling and working on getting his first teeth!
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Brian
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At home though, I'm very vulnerable... I think I'll backup some stuff right now...
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- Rick
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I had a drive begin to fail at work, with data corruption appearing randomly, eventually the drive would not boot. I plugged my backup USB drive into another computer, purchased a new drive for the PC and installed it in a USB drive enclosure, plugging it into the PC also. I instructed Acronis to use the disk image files on the backup USB drive to re-create a week-old version of my boot drive on the newly purchased drive in the USB enclosure. I then extracted the new drive and installed it into my PC. Like magic it actually booted with all my programs installed and data files preserved.
I will caution that I have not had the same success with my Dell notebook PC. It may be because I'm using an older version of Acronis. Dell has all these hidden partitions which need to dealt with properly. I suggest the more advanced software by Acronis for this application which permits low-level manipulation of the boot section of the drive.
Again, my experience was remarkable. I will NEVER not backup my PC. Acronis is cool.
Nero burning rom which comes with most CD roms, comes with a decent backup utility. it supports most media types. and will do incremental and differential backups
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"A complex design is the sign of an inferior designer." - Jamie Hyneman, Myth Buster
DGSwaner
I use ZTREE (Where would I be without it) to select all the recent files in a branch that includes subdirectories and then I copy across to the external drive telling it to replicate the paths and to update any older file with the newer one. Takes only a few short moments usually.
My sister-in-law must have smacked her laptop pretty hard because Vista wasn't booting and the hdd was making that terrible repetitive "seek,uhhohh,reset,seek" sound that indicated some media damage. I tried pulling the drive out and putting it into a usb shuttle then applying various techniques but to no avail. The only way I got the stuff off mostly intact was by booting the laptop on a SimplyMepis Linux CD and opening a console to force mount and then copy all the files onto an external usb hdd. Any GUI interface just timed out badly. Still the recovery got 90% of it but it took more than 24 hours of running with all the timeouts to get the files. The drive is a write-off.
*Peter*
Well worth the price...
And no, it isn't MY files I save, but those of colleagues at the office.
I tell them time after time NOT to store files on the local HDD, but to use their Homeshare, but no....
The last one, though... Came in with a HP nc6400 laptop which had a bent(1) frame. The screen was pulverized, and no obvious signs that it was booting...
Yanked the HDD out and plugged it into a desktop, but no sign that the PC detected it. Then the user told me that he had a pal who does data recovery in another company, and that he had 'software worth $25000' and had promised to make an attempt... Good luck to him...
It would take a clean room and a specialist company like IBAS to get anything back from it...
Myself?
The original files are stored on a NAS-disk, and copied to my computer before I start work on them. Backup is to one or more USB-disks.
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So, I keep projects in every machine, backup from time to time, but I know my method is not reliable enough. I'd like to do work in just one medium, regardless of in which computer. Sadly, ext2 for Mac is... not as stable as in linux (uncleanly unmounted (I always unmount before I remove the flash drive, but somehow the fs gets corrupted, will kernel panic the Mac, mount as read-only, or hang during unmount). And fat is as it always was, just a joke. Two external mem sticks already failed on me, so I do not trust them. And USB on linux is not very reliable, I mean let a disk be connected for 2 days... and your fs is borked :-(. For that reiserfs 3 is well, bad, xfs is even worst. I'll stick with ext2/ext3... they work better. CDs/DVDs are cheaper.
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The more I know, the more I know I don't know.· Is this what they call Wisdom?