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Old 10-27-2020, 03:28 PM   Topic Starter
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Don't be me with your computer files
I just lost all of my computer data dating back 20 years. Long story short I had it BACKED UP on a 2tb portable hard drive which I dropped. It's trashed. 2 different sysops looked at it. I can send it to the company and pray but that bill starts at $1000.00 They took it apart and its running but the arm is scratching back and forth across the disk. No light comes on and it is not recognized by any computer I plug it into. 20 years of taxes, personal files, small business files and lesson plans and lessons from my 30 years of teaching welding - gone.

Truthfully I had it backed up on my computer c drive which had to be re-imaged.
My though was, it gets re-imaged, I copy everything back, now I still have two copies. BAM god punished me.

Don't be me, back that stuff up twice. I would do it on "the cloud" but know little about it. Mr. Wizard is wrong again!

PS is the cloud a good idea for an old dog like me?
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:31 PM   #2
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I know a place in Delaware that might be able to have a gander...
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:37 PM   #3
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I know a place in Delaware that might be able to have a gander...
How much would it cost. I am willing to try, just not gonna drop $1000.00 for them to start and then $50.00 per hour plus parts. I would but I got kids in college man.
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:41 PM   #4
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How much would it cost. I am willing to try, just not gonna drop $1000.00 for them to start and then $50.00 per hour plus parts. I would but I got kids in college man.
The chances of them being able to recover your data is really small.

Very few of these data restoral techniques are worth the cost.
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Old 10-27-2020, 06:30 PM   #5
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How much would it cost. I am willing to try, just not gonna drop $1000.00 for them to start and then $50.00 per hour plus parts. I would but I got kids in college man.
Honestly, if the read arm scratched the platter, then you're ****ed. Sorry. No recovery place is going to bring back that kind of damage. They usually recover data due to failed read arm or other failure that still results in all the data platters being preserved. They can then remove the platters, and install them into a working drive. Data is scattered across multiple platters, and it's all interconnected by a bit mapping sequence. If one platter is damaged, it's just a jigsaw puzzle of corrupted bits.

My advice is to always maintain a physical backup as well as a cloud backup. External drives fail as well. Cloud backup is redundantly secure. There's lots of free services like boxdrop.com, box.com, OneDrive, etc. That usually gives you ~5GB of free cloud storage. If you pay a small ~$5 monthly fee, you can usually upgrade your cloud storage to ~50GB. Cloud services are safe and secure.
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:31 PM   #6
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:34 PM   #7
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:37 PM   #8
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If you get a subscription to office 365 it gives you a 1TB One Drive Account. It acts like a file on your computer but is stored in the cloud.

On the farm we use dropbox because we had dropbox before one drive existed.

That's where it's at my man.
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:44 PM   #9
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If you get a subscription to office 365 it gives you a 1TB One Drive Account. It acts like a file on your computer but is stored in the cloud.

On the farm we use dropbox because we had dropbox before one drive existed.

That's where it's at my man.
I'm old fashioned in a way that feels like using that shit gives microsoft or whoever runs that cloud has access to all my info.
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:46 PM   #10
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I'm old fashioned in a way that feels like using that shit gives microsoft or whoever runs that cloud has access to all my info.
Dude, your phone is connected to the internet. They already have access to that data in transit if they really want it.

Most online services encrypt your data at rest and some of them don't even have a means to decrypt it without your intervention.
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If you get a subscription to office 365 it gives you a 1TB One Drive Account. It acts like a file on your computer but is stored in the cloud.

On the farm we use dropbox because we had dropbox before one drive existed.

That's where it's at my man.
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:33 PM   #12
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That's why you have to backup your files on a floppy disk
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Old 10-27-2020, 03:40 PM   #13
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That's why you have to backup your files on a floppy disk
I did, thats the point
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Yeah, I put all my important spreadsheets and stuff on my desktop and copy my desktop from time to time on a spare usb. Which reminds me I need to do that. Sorry that happened to you. You'll find that life still goes on though.
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Yeah, I put all my important spreadsheets and stuff on my desktop and copy my desktop from time to time on a spare usb. Which reminds me I need to do that. Sorry that happened to you. You'll find that life still goes on though.
yeah, spare USB is a better idea, I've been considering a networked drive with scheduled backups but just haven't done it.
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