Just a friendly reminder… BACKUP YOUR FILES!
I see it time and time again – someone losing all of their personal documents, pictures or music to a bad hard drive a virus infection or even worse having a machine or drive stolen. So make sure you backup everything to the cloud or a server away from where the data is. This way if a disaster strikes you can recover. I love dropbox and I love Windows Home Servers for automatic backups.
Do you guys have backup routines? We want to hear about all your bat scripts running xxcopy scripts and all that good stuff. Hit us up in the comments guys. Let’s all benifit from the groups knowledge.
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about 1 year ago
I’ll admit to not being overly faithful and I know better. I have lost tax docs due to a failed drive now twice. The first time I saved the drive and later learned some disk forensics and recovered the data. The second time it was the backup drive that failed or got knocked to the floor. but I wasn’t told about it until it was too late. Now I have a small file server running upstairs that serves music and stores backups. I’ve learned my lessons the hard way.
about 1 year ago
I bumped a backup ide drive connected to a usb to ide cable and now I can not get at the data. Drive tells me it needs to be formated. How did you fix yours?
about 1 year ago
The drive that was knocked over was an external USB and fell from about 4 ft. It was not the one I recovered data from. I still have it and hope to someday. The one that failed was several years ago. A WD 500Mb that I believe just crashed for some reason unknown. I was able to mount it and used a Norton tool at the time to recover the files. I was never able to use it again.
You might try a rescue program like Photorec or testdisk to try and recover it. Check out Parted Magic a live Linux distro that has both tools. I’ve had success with both. Testdisk can possibly recover the partition tables. Be sure to do a bit of reading on them first for best success. Good luck.
about 1 year ago
Thanks. I was able to recover 100% of the files using Stellar Phoneix. Worked out awesome. Testdisk didnt work for me and Photrec wrote the files using cryptic filenames. So in this case for me it was worth dropping a couple of duckets. Always have backups of your backups!
about 12 months ago
“Take backup @ cloud” ??? didn’t you read http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/27/gmail-accidentally-resetting-accounts-years-of-correspondence-v/ :)
But yesh, still cloud will be much better option.
about 10 months ago
You’re friendly neighborhood Slothman here(been a while!) and I have two things for this.
1) Mozy!!! Or any other online back up service. $6 a month is well worth it. Best disaster recovery solution you can have is to put the important files as far away from you as possible. So long as you can retrieve them!
2) Great story regarding the comic in this post. While doing some IT training when I was a noob one of the trainers was telling us a story of a tech who worked under him at some big company.
Call comes to the help desk, woman says she lost her file she was working on, it just disappeared. After a few steps to see if she closed Word etc, the tech asks, ‘do you have any windows open?’ Yes she answers. ‘can you close them for me?’ ‘Sure’ she says. She places the phone down, the tech hears her push the chair back, walks around the desk, and proceeds to close the window in her office. She returns to the phone and says, ‘Nope didn’t fix it, still can’t find my document.’
The tech is really frustrated and says “OK, what I want you to do is go open the window again, and jump the f**k out!”
It was his last day on the job…but funny none the less. :-)