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ReAktor · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 2:28 pm

...one of my project backup harddrives. Almost 80 Gigabyte of backup data gone and the RAID corrupted. Last complete Backup set corrupted as well.

Do you know that creepy feeling you get when you just see a bluescreen and know "Hey, this time its not funny"?
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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

Heeh wow dude, sorry about that..
With hard drives you never know. I had some cheap ass Fujitsu 6Gb drive for like 5 years (now as backup drive) and it never failed.
I had IBM (quality stuff) for a year and it mechanically broke down. Arr.. i wish there was some good way to backup, but the best one seems burning CDs. Or DVDs if you have money for a burner.

ReAktor · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:11 pm

Ah, I could tell you stories about burned CDs and the problems to get the data back after three years. They use some kind of biologic color that degrades when it gets older... I think the only good way to back up Data is by carving it into an iceblock and putting that thing way down to the south pole and bury it deeeeeep...

But, hey, after Bush refused to sign Kyoto even that would not bring safety anymore Very Happy

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[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

Yeah, nothing is forever.
Think of backup as something that will last "this" long Smile

Besides, did you really need all that ancient crap that you put on it? Just start your life fresh from scratch Wink

soogarrush · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:22 pm

sorry to hear man.

this post just made me realize how short life is, and it might end any second..(life of a hard drive that is). i shall go backup everything on CD now, Sad

bleh no fun..

hope everything works out for you.

dr . bang · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 3:34 pm

sorry to hear that man, have u try to bring it to a Data Recovery shop or sumthing?

Btw what HD was it? an IMB?
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ReAktor · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:28 pm

At the moment I take a look at my weekly backup tapes. And I have some CDs as well. Looks like it only crashed some rendered scenes which will take some days to render but I have the scenes on my workstation as well. Most of the data was computer generated, I can rebuild it, some schedules will have to be pushed into next year *sight*

dr.bang, I will call ontrack if one of my friends will not be able to get a binary image off of the drive. But they cost a fortune...

It was a Maxtor G540-4X 80GB... I have four more of them in my raid but luckily I selected different production lines so I hope only one will be defective. I cannot send them all in for checks...

But, hey, think positive... I get a new harddrive for Christmas... Isn't that something? Very Happy

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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:38 pm

What kind of raid? I bet it wasnt raid 5... data is easily preserved with smart effort.

ReAktor · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2002 4:49 pm

Raid-0 with additional backup on tape. One drive faulty all data corrupt, maximum storage capability and fast speed. I just thought that, if a drive fails it would do it with one big crash. In such a case the backup on tape would bring errors on the crc-check. Well, it didn't. The drive has been defective for more than a week and finally crashed this morning. When murphy is on the field he scores... big time.
For each week in a month I have one set of ADR-Tapes consisting of a complete backup every Saturday and incremental backups every evening. Set three is completely corrupt, set four would have taken its place saturday morning... I hope set two will do the trick. Getting back to last friday would be ok.
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Ragnarok · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2002 2:01 am

That sucks... sorry man.

I remember last summer, my HD died too. But mine decided to do it the big way. I had only one HD with all my data in it, and one day, when browsing looking for a file, the names of the dirs started to show weirdo things, lots of symbols and random letters going through all the screen.
Next day the number of dirs corrupted were twice. Afte some quick research I discovered the FAT of the HD was dying, the clusters were nuts and I couldn't do nothing. I saved something into another HD a friend let me, but most of my data died. And I thought a HD will last for years... that one had a just couple.

Just try to have different backups of the same thing, on cd, tape, HD, printed...
Good luck with the recovery.
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Max · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 10:43 am

oh man

*burning all my files right NOW.......*

haohmaru · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 6:01 pm

damn, had one hell of a shock this afternoon. i really thought the same thing had happened to my computer as well. wouldn't have been the first time(lost all the data on my hard disk a few years ago), but fortunately it turned out that just the power supply unit had died. phew!
i will immediately make a backup. yes i will...
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Hase · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:44 pm

my condolences. here�s a tip: get everything you can on paper. my hardcopy backups have outlasted my third computer already... most of my data hasn�t.