Reminder: Back your files up!

[Chaotic42]

So I go to back some files up and Windows informs that it would be best for me to format the drive in question before I do anything else. A small wave of concern washes over me because why would I need to format the drive that all of my lovely files are on?

Turns out the drive's allocation table or whatever is hosed. Then I remember why. I was using a program in Linux that was zero-indexed, then switched to one that wasn't. Problem is that I didn't up the number by one and I toasted /dev/hda7.

So here I am having purchased a $45 program to recover my drive, waiting for it to finish running.

The lessons to be learned?

1) Zero-indexed things are the work of God-less hippies.
2) Back your stuff up one day before you originally planned to back it up.

:beer:

 

[eplebnista]

Thanks for the reminder! :thumbsup:

 

[OdiN]

Thank you Captain Obvious!

 

[bmacd]

i lost 3 hard drives in the last month. I know all about losing all of your data

-=bmacd=-

 

[compuwiz1]

Repent my son, for that can only be the work of the debil.

 

[aircooled]

I keep my critical files on a raid 5 SnapServer (and I back up my pics to DVD every one in a while).

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: aircooled
I keep my critical files on a raid 5 SnapServer (and I back up my pics to DVD every one in a while).

Networked Mirrors are da sh1t!

 

[TheToOTaLL]

Originally posted by: bmacd
i lost 3 hard drives in the last month. I know all about losing all of your data

-=bmacd=-

I lost 2 myself, sadly, containing my pr0n collection

But I mean, who here backs that stuff up anyways??

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Thank you Captain Obvious!

That's Lt. Colonel Obvious to you, maggot.

 

[Bozono]

I hear you. I got at least 50 DVD's to burn of back-ups. Man, that's gonna take like 10 hours.

 

[thehstrybean]

I've got a Gateway that was given to me that I upgraded to 512mb RAM and a 300GB HDD, and now it's my internal network backup server. Acronis runs a backup to it every weeknight, full backup....

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: OdiN
Thank you Captain Obvious!

That's Lt. Colonel Obvious to you, maggot.

:laugh:

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: OdiN
Thank you Captain Obvious!

That's Lt. Colonel Obvious to you, maggot.

That's MISTER OdiN maggot to you, chief bottlewasher Obvious!

Hear Hear!

Preach, but will they listen?


Not until the disaster strikes

<darth> NOOOOOoooOOOOOoOOOOOOOOO!! </darth>

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Thanks for the reminder! :thumbsup:

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: eplebnista
Thanks for the reminder! :thumbsup:

*cough* Linux sucks *cough*

 

[GeekDrew]

I booted up my desktop yesterday, after leaving it alone for 2 months... and discovered that /dev/hdb2 had to remount read-only due to filesystem errors. And it was using ext3.

 

[dakata24]

what software are you using? i used Getdataback with great success on a external hd.