Learn From My Mistake
 

I'm finally back online after a week. The hard drive in my old computer crashed hard. I had a new mainstream site almost ready to go online and did not have it backed up, so I can kiss a few weeks worth of work goodbye unless I can recover the information from the old drive. IF YOU DO NOT REGULARY BACK UP YOUR WORK |pokefun| (like me), learn from my mistake.

On the positive side this new HP computer kicks ass.

I feel your pain.
If your HD is not physically destroyed and led is on, you can alway try to recover data.There are so many software out there.
Few days ago I recover few mp3 deleted moths ago.I used Tune Up Utilities 2007.

Two words...

Time Machine



|cleo|

that sucks, good thing nowdays there are some good ways to recover hard drive information

Man, I never want to have to deal with that. I back things up religiously

Ya, I love my 4 week old HP laptop.

*makes a backup of his system*

That sucks, and it's pretty much what happened to me last week also, except for me it was the motherboard that crashed. Luckily I had backups of my data, but still the downtime sucks big time

Dude, that sucks bigtime!

Something like that has happened to me before so I got myself one of these, and while I was in spending mode one of these also.

Nice setup Lemmy!
I need to get one of these as well (as I figure a powersurge was what actually killed my motherboard in the first place), but those would be overkill for me :)

It may be a tad pricey, but it give peace of mind to know that every computer in your house is automatically backed up every night and can be restored from scratch (including OS) even if the harddrive is completely fried.

Hell, I have so many hard drives in mine that it would take a week to back them up every night. I do keep backups of my vids and pics - and of the server - but my work in progress...........

Guess I'm just fucked when one fries |banghead|

Glad to see you back Maj Stress.

I can tell you from personal experience that Time Machine was worth its weight in gold.

Laptop drive died, took it to the apple store, they said, yep, its the hard drive. Bought a new drive, installed MacOS from the dvd, partway through the process, Hey, I notice an old Time Machine backup, do you want me to restore that? 40 minutes later, my laptop was back to where it was 18 minutes before the crash. I opened firefox and it realized it had crashed and reopened the bookmarks.

According to the survey, 14.2% don't even know if their current webhost does backups.

On my linux laptop, I did back up to a storage server which kept generational copies - certainly not as pretty as Time Machine, but, just as functional.

Backups are extremely important and you can get simple one-touch backup drives that hook up to USB/Firewire. A quick rule of thumb is, back up only as frequently as you want remembering how much time it will take to reconstruct since your last backup.

Data Recovery tools today are pretty good -- you might be able to try one of those $49-$99 recovery programs if the drive is still spinning and its only a data error that ruined the fat tables or some other disk structure. If the drive is spinning, most of those recovery programs can recover it. If not, ontrack.com and dozens of other companies can do the data recovery, but, its quite pricey.

Not really. The first time takes forever, but after that it only backs up what has changed since your last backup which was 24 hours earlier. Set it to run when you're sleeping and it's not even an inconvenience.

Thats pretty bad, Ive experienced that too so what I did, some of my files are saved on my online account, then drive and make soft a copy...

Welcome back Maj Stress **slapping a DVD RW in the drive**

Lol if you can afford a backup hd and the dealers have it. I am having 2 slightly damaged minis now but no backup. :)
PS
the original 3 yr o mini is so sick that cannot realize its cd drive. But has a lot of stuff on it and run under Tiger while the other one came with Leopard.