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Unlucky....Personal loss
7 years ago
Welp any of your heard 3-2-1?
Aka you need 3 copies of your data, 2 on physical medium near you and 1 off-site (online or at your relative's house away from you)?
Apparently that is not enough.
What happened to me is just about a month ago, my primary back up drive failed without any warning. I didn't take that seriously but did put a new hard drive in my shopping cart. And yesterday the new hard drive arrived. BUT, after I got the new hard drive and starting copying my data onto my new hard drive... my over enthusiastic dog ran in and tripped on the power cable on the external hard drive (Secondary backup drive).... and that hard drive fallen to its demise...........
WORSE, I used BackBlaze as my off-site backup, but just as I logged in and looking for the Backup of my secondary drive... there is only 500GB out of 2.7 TB data left in it... I was certain the software had already uploaded everything on the drive weeks ago and I hadn't add anything new into the drive since my primary drive failed a month ago...
Gone, was some movies, software, but those can be redownloaded. What I might not able to get back are stories I haven't finish to write, recorded vids (yes including the me and my bf meet the first time and mate) and pictures... amount it are lot of pictures of my deceased dog... which passed away 4 years ago...
It was a said day... I am planning to send the hard drives to data recovery companies to see if they can recover them (the primary have some hope, but the secondary was dropped while reading data...data corruption aside the platter may be affected...) and I e-mailed BackBlaze about my missing files and hope they still have them somewhere...
If not... sorry Bill(my deceased dog) you will live in my heart from now on...
(Luckly I have another copy of all my commissions on my laptop... thank god............... I have a lot of them haven't been uploaded to anywhere yet.)
I will update this journal if BackBlaze managed to get my data back and or if I get my data back by any meanings...
*Update 1* Appears the BackBlaze have the data from the primary backup drive. So I placed an order to have them ship a hard drive with the data to me (About 200USD...). Although there will be 1TB of data still unaccounted for, I think those are less precious stuff like movies and software... we will see what we can get back from it.
Aka you need 3 copies of your data, 2 on physical medium near you and 1 off-site (online or at your relative's house away from you)?
Apparently that is not enough.
What happened to me is just about a month ago, my primary back up drive failed without any warning. I didn't take that seriously but did put a new hard drive in my shopping cart. And yesterday the new hard drive arrived. BUT, after I got the new hard drive and starting copying my data onto my new hard drive... my over enthusiastic dog ran in and tripped on the power cable on the external hard drive (Secondary backup drive).... and that hard drive fallen to its demise...........
WORSE, I used BackBlaze as my off-site backup, but just as I logged in and looking for the Backup of my secondary drive... there is only 500GB out of 2.7 TB data left in it... I was certain the software had already uploaded everything on the drive weeks ago and I hadn't add anything new into the drive since my primary drive failed a month ago...
Gone, was some movies, software, but those can be redownloaded. What I might not able to get back are stories I haven't finish to write, recorded vids (yes including the me and my bf meet the first time and mate) and pictures... amount it are lot of pictures of my deceased dog... which passed away 4 years ago...
It was a said day... I am planning to send the hard drives to data recovery companies to see if they can recover them (the primary have some hope, but the secondary was dropped while reading data...data corruption aside the platter may be affected...) and I e-mailed BackBlaze about my missing files and hope they still have them somewhere...
If not... sorry Bill(my deceased dog) you will live in my heart from now on...
(Luckly I have another copy of all my commissions on my laptop... thank god............... I have a lot of them haven't been uploaded to anywhere yet.)
I will update this journal if BackBlaze managed to get my data back and or if I get my data back by any meanings...
*Update 1* Appears the BackBlaze have the data from the primary backup drive. So I placed an order to have them ship a hard drive with the data to me (About 200USD...). Although there will be 1TB of data still unaccounted for, I think those are less precious stuff like movies and software... we will see what we can get back from it.
Yeah, I had something like that happen to me. I backed everything up onto a flashdrive, but my chair swung around and went back into the computer, crunching the flash drive and bending the port. It sits on a shelf awaiting funds so I can have it repaired properly and recovered.
My main HD failed less than a week later, before I had gotten around to backing everything up onto a new HD. Worse, other things that weren't on the main HD were on the flash drive. So I have two things awaiting data recovery services. x.x
But yes, save the HDs. If you have money, you can get the data back using a data recovery specialist. However, in my experience, it will cost you.
Hope things get better soon