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 Dec 30 2005, 06:40 AM
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 Interplanetary Dumpster Diver  Group: Admin Posts: 4408 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33  |
Well, it looks like I am out of business, at least for the time being. My computer suffered a catastrophic crash. I am a bit better prepared than when this happened a few years ago - more backups - but not everything is backed up (recent stuff). And I have no machine to work on. We had a big power outage today. When I rebooted, the hard drive acted funny, and then, at about 7:00 tonight, died. The recovery software I have is showing it as empty and partitioned (which is odd - my hard drive is not partitioned. I am working on some last ditch efforts before taking it to data recovery experts, but, assuming these efforts fail, I am without a functional computer. What I really hate is that my archive of family, friends, and landscape photography is mostly totally lost if I can't recover the data from the drive, as well as e-mails dating back to 1993. Ironically, I had ordered a 260 Gigabyte external drive to forever end my backup problems, and it shipped two days ago...It should be here any day now, and would have prevented loss of personal data in this. Ughhhh....
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Jan 28 2006, 10:17 AM
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 So sad - it's a lesson we all go thru at some point, I genuinely feel your pain -it's horrid. Doug |
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Jan 28 2006, 02:01 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4408 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 28 2006, 10:17 AM) So sad - it's a lesson we all go thru at some point, I genuinely feel your pain -it's horrid. Doug  The biggest lesson I have learned from this is to not be lazy about leaving backup drives plugged in to the main machine. -------------------- |
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Jan 29 2006, 03:57 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Hey - does THIS Web site have proper backups? Too much important information and images to lose here.
On a related note, a warning about the short lifetimes of burned CDs: http://msn.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,...00.asp?GT1=7645 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jan 29 2006, 09:52 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14457 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Jan 29 2006, 03:57 AM) Hey - does THIS Web site have proper backups? Nahh - I thought I'd just let it crash and loose everything at some point - I didn't think anyone would mind or notice. In actual fact, database ( i.e. the text content, forums, members etc ) backups are taken daily, and stored on my laptop, my desktop machine, and ftp'd to a machine at a geographically distant site. The attachments are downloaded weekly, and again, copies are held here at home, and elsewhere and regularly dumped to CD-R (soon to be DVD-R given the volume) Doug |
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tedstryk Out Of Business..... Dec 30 2005, 06:40 AM
deglr6328 You might have some luck trying the freezer trick.... Dec 30 2005, 08:13 AM Richard Trigaux I already suffered this problem twice, so I unders... Dec 30 2005, 08:13 AM
tedstryk QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 30 2005, 08:13 A... Dec 31 2005, 04:03 AM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 31 2005, 04:03 AM)I hav... Dec 31 2005, 07:05 AM RNeuhaus QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 30 2005, 11:03 PM)I hav... Dec 31 2005, 09:53 PM ElkGroveDan Well Ted your loss has been a reminder to us all. ... Jan 1 2006, 03:37 AM Bill Harris Ye golden rule: backup, and backup often. Nowaday... Dec 30 2005, 08:47 AM Richard Trigaux Backing up with CDs can be tedious too, especially... Dec 30 2005, 10:14 AM tedstryk QUOTE (Richard Trigaux @ Dec 30 2005, 10:14 A... Dec 31 2005, 03:48 AM tedstryk QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 31 2005, 03:48 AM)Ironi... Dec 31 2005, 03:51 AM lyford QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 30 2005, 07:51 PM)Thank... Dec 31 2005, 08:06 PM Nix Sorry to hear that man, that sucks. I hope you can... Dec 30 2005, 12:53 PM PhilCo126 O.K. Backup is really necessary ... but for total ... Dec 30 2005, 01:54 PM RNeuhaus It is bad that your computer had run problems. I u... Dec 30 2005, 03:05 PM ljk4-1 Very sorry about what happened, Ted. Perhaps some... Dec 30 2005, 03:20 PM um3k I have 36gb worth of photographs, and about a thir... Dec 30 2005, 03:40 PM Chmee Yes, Always backup! I have a DVD burner and n... Dec 30 2005, 05:17 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (Chmee @ Dec 30 2005, 05:17 PM)Yes, Alw... Dec 30 2005, 05:48 PM ilbasso I got a relatively inexpensive but blazingly fast ... Dec 30 2005, 05:52 PM RNeuhaus QUOTE (ilbasso @ Dec 30 2005, 12:52 PM)I got ... Dec 31 2005, 09:43 PM lyford Sorry to hear about your problems - good luck with... Dec 30 2005, 06:03 PM Phil Stooke Good luck, Ted. I'm paranoid about this, like... Dec 30 2005, 07:40 PM Bob Shaw Ted:
That's rotten news.
I'd like to ech... Dec 30 2005, 10:56 PM Richard Trigaux QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 30 2005, 10:56 PM)But i... Dec 31 2005, 07:11 AM deglr6328 QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 31 2005, 04:03 AM)I hav... Dec 31 2005, 06:39 AM Jeff7 I've got a SATA removable hard drive bay, and ... Dec 31 2005, 06:57 AM RNeuhaus Ted,
I have enclosed a URL where you can select s... Dec 31 2005, 09:46 PM jamescanvin Well I now know what I'm going to do right aft... Jan 2 2006, 11:43 PM tedstryk Well, I am slowly recovering. My wife and I are of... Jan 11 2006, 08:06 PM Nix Have a nice trip tedstryk. Good luck on the recove... Jan 11 2006, 09:42 PM tedstryk Bad news....
"Dear Mr. Stryk
Unfortunately ... Jan 28 2006, 03:21 AM deglr6328 eughh horrible. sorry to hear it! I am curio... Jan 28 2006, 04:46 AM tedstryk QUOTE (deglr6328 @ Jan 28 2006, 04:46 AM)eugh... Jan 28 2006, 10:08 AM Bob Shaw If push comes to shove, buy a duplicate drive off ... Jan 28 2006, 12:54 PM tedstryk One thing I have done is dug through all my old po... Jan 29 2006, 12:17 PM ljk4-1 QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 29 2006, 04:52 AM)Nahh... Jan 29 2006, 06:28 PM nprev There are some nice USB-connected backup HDs on th... Jan 29 2006, 06:25 AM deglr6328 Whilst you may not appreciate this in your current... Jan 31 2006, 08:41 AM ugordan Sorry to bring out an age old thread, but I wanted... Oct 13 2006, 06:10 PM tedstryk Ouch...glad you retrieved your data. I back my d... Oct 13 2006, 10:26 PM nprev Thanks for the cautionary note, UGordan. I got 3 y... Oct 14 2006, 02:36 AM |
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