my hd :(

SteveS · 18 Dec 2008 at 10:35

last night suddenly said it wasn't initialized... wants me to do that then I guess format it like a new disk... has years worth of data on, gutted.... typical thing was I was just thinking about mirroring it... doh!!

I have gotdataback and im recovering data from it to my server (over gb network) still taking yonks!

grr

spitzoid · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:17

I don't get it

Solari · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:27

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rpstewart · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:33

Remember kids, a backup is for life, not just Christmas.

SteveS · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:34

u dont get it??

im bored and work and miffed so thought id post... :rolleyes:

SteveS · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:35

rpstewart said:
Remember kids, a backup is for life, not just Christmas.

lol, im just gutted as like 5days ago, i was thinking about buying two 1TB drives and raid1'ing them, now wish i bloody well had!

rpstewart · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:40

RAID1 is for redundancy, it's not a true backup. It gives no protection against accidental (or malicious) deletion, file system corruption, flood, fire or theft.

You're better off with an external HDD and synching that using robocopy or the like.

SteveS · 18 Dec 2008 at 11:56

how so?
it means there is duplicated data on both disks, a mirror image, if one fails the other has the copy... whats wrong with that?

Solari · 18 Dec 2008 at 12:20

SteveS said:
how so?
it means there is duplicated data on both disks, a mirror image, if one fails the other has the copy... whats wrong with that?

Basically, if you get some sort of corruption going on, the bad data will replicate to the other disk in the array.

It's no substitute for a proper backup...

SteveS · 18 Dec 2008 at 12:25

ok agreed, but then robo copy would also overwrite the 2nd copy with the bad copy unless it was spotted before it ran, and obviously i cant check everyfile every second to make sure that its not corrupt.