[Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

[cmichaelo@optonline.net]

I personally would never use a single HD as backup. 

However, using two HDs as backups, each of which is an image of the other, should be quite safe, since the likelyhood of both failing within a day or so of eachother is sooo small.

This is sort of a poor mans ways of providing distributed backup.  

I think commercial backup facilities do sort of the same thing.  They use something called RAID (which is HD based) to provide redundancy and reduce cost.

Also, I don't know where else one should store all this info if not on HDs.  

I may be wrong, but I don't think they use removable media anymore, or do they?

Michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net>
Date: Saturday, July 9, 2005 11:00 am
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities

> Next time, back up that drive!!
> 
> IIRC, in your original post, you said that was your backup HD. 
> Well, if it
> was truly your backup HD, it should have also had the data stored 
> elsewhere.
> It sounds like it was really your "archive" HD. If that's the 
> case, it
> should still be backed up somewhere. Any device that is a "backup" 
> meansthat it is a copy of something else.....meaning that you must 
> have two
> copies.
> 
> FWIW, I personally would never use a HD as an archive. It's not 
> "if" they
> die, it's "when" they die!!
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Ian Fisher
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: cmichaelo@optonline.net
> Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT: file recovery utilities
> 
> ahhh..IIRC, Seagate's ActiveX utility scanned the
> drive online and said that it had possible bad
> sectors.
> 
> Thanks for the link-Ironically I had just read it last
> night but didn't investigate the testdisk utility. I
> saw that the article was a few years old so I was
> wondering if anyone had experience with anything newer
> or better. 
> 
> It looks like I need a new HD to transfer data to if
> this works. :)
> 
> Thanks!
> Ian
> 
> 
> --- cmichaelo@optonline.net wrote:
> 
> > Ian,
> > 
> > Sounds like you have both lost your partition
> > information, or that the partition info has been
> > damaged, which might explain why your drive is full
> > all of a sudden.
> > 
> > You said up front that you have bad sectors. How do
> > you know this?
> > 
> > There are ways to examine and possibly recover a
> > harddrive that doesn't boot and which has messed up
> > partition info.
> > 
> > Check out testdisk:
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> > 
> > testdisk and other freeware recovery utilities are
> > discussed here:
> >
> http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1139
> > 
> > 
> > Michael
> > 94MTX,green,BOS+,Koni/Intrax,Baer,Corbeau
> > SHO items for sale:
> > http://hometown.aol.com/cmichaelo/for_sale.html
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