OT: Data Recovery

[Eric Cope]

I use Crashplan both locally and offsite. I made a poor choice to let my brother select the backup method for this drive (it was in his server) and he failed to verify the backup method. 

First rule of backups is to have at least 2 copies. 
Second rule of backups is to verify your strategy is working. 

Needless to say, I've learned my lesson and I now have my data correctly backed up. 

Eric

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> On Jun 2, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 1 to of online storage can be had for cheap. USB backup drives. Or even a simple raid 1. Look at your Data stored if the cost of any of those is worth less than the data you store there do something about it.
> 
> Advice I give to EVERYONE. Heck look at the disk recovery costs listed. A 2nd drive and external backup is a savings.
> 
>> On Jun 2, 2015 4:51 PM, "Keith Smith" <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry for your lose!
>> 
>> Interestingly enough the article says "The surprising (and bad) news is that Seagate 3.0TB drives are failing a lot more, with their failure rate jumping from 9% to 15%. The Western Digital 3TB drives have also failed more, with their rate going up from 4% to 7%."
>> 
>> According to the article all others are performing within expected failure range... or would that be acceptable range for them?
>> 
>> I buy Dell and I think they come with Seagate.  I hope I never lose a drive.  I lost one at work about 18 years ago.  My manager lost a drive a month earlier.  I've had a very uneventful life when it comes to computer failures and i hope it stays that way.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2015-06-02 15:46, Eric Cope wrote:
>>> not at all.
>>> The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a
>>> firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After
>>> the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully, however
>>> it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing. There was data
>>> that couldn't be recovered without replacing the heads. They offered
>>> to take it into their clean room for $750, replace the heads, and
>>> recover the rest of the data. I didn't need it (it was my brother's
>>> data and he was too cheap to pay for recovery), so I opted not to
>>> continue the recovery process.
>>> 
>>> FYI - if you have data on Seagates, get it
>>> off: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
>>> [3]
>>> 
>>> Eric
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing
>>>> total?  Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I
>>>> never have an answer.
>>>> 
>>>> On or off-list is fine.  :)
>>>> 
>>>> -mb
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>> I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company,
>>>>> Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data.
>>>>> They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free
>>>>> evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly
>>>>> recommend them.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ [2]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need
>>>>> recovery services, check them out.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Eric
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>>> Links:
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>>> [2] http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/
>>> [3] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
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