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Originally Posted by Damian
Wow.
Dude, drives are so so so so cheap now, for me, there really is no excuse for not having the following:
- main drive
- mirrored bootable backup of that drive (so you can carry on working when your drive dies)
- cloud storage back up (so you can access your shit whereever you are)
- physical off site back up (for when your place is robbed or burns down)
How much would the 250 gig of content you might have just lost cost to replace? I wager more than the 20 bucks a spare 250 gig drive would cost!
I know this isn't helping you and I'm not meaning to sound harsh but if you don't have a back up and redundancy for that back up, when drives are so damn cheap then it's a bit silly, really. 
Let us know how the recovery goes though... |
Damiam, I don't know you and you don't know me, so you don't have any way to know that my backup strategy has kept me safe from all data loss for 25 years now. I agree with what you're saying, Damian, but I hope you understand that offering general backup advice isn't of much help in this case. I do have an external boot drive for emergencies and for all important data I do have backups of backups of backups, three levels with at least one off-site, but this drive *may* have a few things on it which I'd still like to recover. Which is why I'll scan it first to determine that for certain before recopying the backups from other drives onto it.
I asked for feedback on data recovery software for Macintosh users since I haven't had a need to recover any lost data for so long that I'm not sure which ones are the best today. I didn't ask for input on what I should be doing to protect my existing data since I do know how to do that.
Anyway, I promise not to come to webmaster shows and tell you all about the generally accepted strategies magicians should always use to ensure that the crowd can't discover how you do your tricks. In exchange I'd ask that you offer advice on my specific questions if you have some, but keep the general backup strategy advice ready in case someone else asks for it.
I think we'll both come off looking a bit better that way.