Do your backups!

Selekt0r

Selekt0r

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As my last of my Seagate drives starts hanging my main PC when accessing certain files / areas of the disk and has just failed a drive test by Seagate's tools (good riddance - Seagate have been awful from a reliability perspective in my experience) this is a timely reminder to everyone to make sure you have a good backup strategy in place.

This particular drive is my main storage drive containing all of my personal documents, family photos & video etc. It would be absolutely catastrophic to lose everything on it.

Thankfully everything on it is safely backed-up to my home server (using Syncovery & Drivepool to ensure at least 2 copies are held on separate disks, and up to 10 versions/history of any documents which change). From there it is all also backed-up to the cloud using Crashplan.

I've got a new drive coming today (Western Digital Red) and everything will be restored and back as normal by tomorrow morning.

If you don't have good backups in place then do it now!
 
I was in an office last month and the server had one disk, and no backups lol

The whole business relying on 500GB hard disk :eek:
 
Vargas said:
I was in an office last month and the server had one disk, and no backups lol

The whole business relying on 500GB hard disk :eek:
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I come across this a lot, sometimes the business doesn't even realise they need to backup their data in case of a power cut or the hdd killing over. In some cases the sever has died and you ask them for their backup and you get a "what backup?" Answer back.

Another good one is the same hdd with two partitions and then they backup from one to another and they think this is a good backup solution
 
ED209 said:
I come across this a lot, sometimes the business doesn't even realise they need to backup their data in case of a power cut or the hdd killing over. In some cases the sever has died and you ask them for their backup and you get a "what backup?" Answer back.

Another good one is the same hdd with two partitions and then they backup from one to another and they think this is a good backup solution
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Yeah the partitioned hard disk is a classic. We backup from C: to D: lol
 
Vargas said:
I was in an office last month and the server had one disk, and no backups lol

The whole business relying on 500GB hard disk :eek:
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I've had fun and games recently with my backups :( fortunately not lost any data so far - one drive in the RAID array in my NAS showing as degraded - left it a couple of days while buying some replacement drives, etc. and bam second drive disappeared entirely though subsequently reappeared after I started fiddling with the NAS but with reallocated sectors - having all kind of fun and games trying to rebuild the array though all the data on it seems fine - fortunately I have external realtime replication and regular offline backups as well.

Looks like I'm going to have to tear down the whole NAS and rebuild from the backups though which unfortunately with the failure (and no useful error information as to why) of the RAID migration means also saving the configuration and reconfiguring the whole unit due to the way it stores the system configuration.
 
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