On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
> Sellam wrote:
> > Let me know if you need suggestions for a data recovery place. There is
> > one local that I have used several times, and they have a better than
> > 50% track record with being able to recover my data.
>
> You had to use them more than once?! Didn't you learn the first time?
I think I'm finally getting around to learning after about the 5th ;)
Ok, 4 were company related and one was personal.
Two were hard drives running servers at work that just crashed
spontaneously. We had backups, and did backups fairly regularly (we had
to, lots of telephone billing data) but some work I had done since the
previous backup (about a week prior) did not get backed up. Plus it
would have been a whole lot easier to just get the drive recovered. It
was unsuccessful. I eventually re-wrote the program I lost (not a huge
project).
One was a laptop hard drive. I was in the process of installing Windows
98 or something and the installation completely hosed my machine. My ire
for Bill Gates got the best of me and I smacked my laptop a few times,
hoping Gates would feel it. Hard drive crash. Oh well. I had backups
of all the important stuff (source code). But at any rate I needed it
recovered. It was successful.
One was my hard drive on my machine at home. I had not been good at
keeping backups, but most important data was backed up (Quicken info). It
was not successfull recovered.
My last fiasco was a virus that ate my filesystem. I recovered most
important files but lost all my saved/sent e-mail in one of my personal
accounts from December 2000 through the crash date (Spring of last year)
plus a bunch of digital photos. Not a huge bummer but it sucks none the
less. And the time it wasted...
After Cameron's message last night I finally got my backups done. Three
CDs full of crap. I plan to do a backup every week, and at some point I
will revisit my automated backup software that I've been writing. Unless
someone has a suggestion for something that's very easy to use and either
dumps backup data to a server or a ZIP disk or something removeable.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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