In addition to what's been said on and off list I think this raises an important issue which I've had to point out a few times when similar things have gone wrong for other people.<br><br>A backup stored in the same place (house, flat, office..) isn't a backup policy. You just have another copy of your data.<br>
For example, if someone who did such a thing found their house/flat/office had burned down they'd be lucky to get any data back**.<br><br>For important stuff I keep off site backups. Blank DVD media is cheap as chips these days. I regularly create encrypted archives of data, burn them to DVDs, leave one set locked in a drawer at work, another set with a friend. I also use the <a href="https://one.ubuntu.com/">https://one.ubuntu.com/</a> basic service to seamlessly archive some files on their storage cloud. N.B. other free and paid for services are available. These files do get included in the periodic DVD backups I make.<br>
<br>** special (costly) fireproof/heavy duty external hard drives exist, most people don't own them.<br><br>Testing backups. It's important to test that you can restore your data from the backups you make, otherwise the exercise is a waste of time.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Martin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 April 2011 11:08, kisho khwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meandmyrobotfriend@yahoo.co.uk">meandmyrobotfriend@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: 'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Thanks Kenny/ Kelsoo & Martin,</div><div><br></div><div>The drive doesnae show up at all and I think something is damaged inside. Like everyone has said, I think connecting it to the power source will just cause more damage as the disc starts up. Oooof, I suppose the only solution is to wait & save more cash and take it to a company :-( </div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kenny Duffus <<a href="mailto:kenny@duffus.org" target="_blank">kenny@duffus.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for the Electron Club
<<a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, 9 April, 2011 10:51:27<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ELECTRON] data recovery req!<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:29:32 kelsoo wrote:<br>> kisho khwa wrote:<br>> > Hi folks,<br>> > <br>> > I have a wee offer for someone out there......<br>> > <br>
> > One of DD's ext HD's had an accident and now doesnae work <chuggs/<br>> > bleeps/ nothing> and it was the one we backed up *everything* onto<br>> > <was just about to make a copy!>. Anyhoo, is there anyone on/off the<br>
> > list who would be able to recover the data off it - I think it's about<br>> > 650GB worth on it - there would be some cash in it for you.....We<br>> > can't really afford any of the companies we've looked at so far....<br>
> > <br>> <br>> Try test disk It's "free
software" as in freedom under the gpl. I've<br>> used it in the past on so called dead disks and it's only failed on one.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>
> <br>> <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>> <br><br>what you can do depends a lot on why the disk isn't working<br><br>if the disk is physically not spinning up/reading heads failure that is a lot <br>
more complicated and not something you can solve with testdisk or similar <br>software<br><br>testdisk etc will only work if the disk still works but the filesystems is <br>corrupted or has unreadable sections of the disk (bad blocks)<br>
<br>if you can read any data off the disk the first and most important task is to <br>try to make a complete copy of the disk using something like dd, then you can <br>play with
testdisk on a copy of the dd image<br><br>-- <br><br> Kenny<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>members mailing list<br><a href="mailto:members@electronclub.org" target="_blank">members@electronclub.org</a><br>
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