Help - disaster recovery

[Basil Chupin]

On 18/01/13 16:43, Phil wrote:
> On 18/01/13 14:59, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>>
>> A really expensive way to learn to practice the old, tried and tested
>> adage, "BACKUP! BACKUP! BACKUP!". (13 years of data, eh?)
>>
>> (But I also read only a few days ago somewhere - ?here? - where one
>> person makes a backup of his/her data onto a USB and then puts it in the
>> glove box of his/her car and calls this "offsite storage" of the backup
>> of the valuable data. But anyway.......)
>>
>
> I know Basil, but the worst part of this whole sorry saga is that I 
> did have a backup and I accidentally deleted it and then we had a 
> power failure before I have a chance to make another backup. If I 
> recover my data I will, in future, create two backups.

I must admit that I have skimmed over some of the posts, but it seems 
that whatever backup you did have was not a real backup really. I mean, 
why should a power failure stuff up your chances of restoring your 
files? By this I mean that if the backup of your most valuable and 
irreplaceable data was sitting on an external HDD or on DVDs and you 
then made backups of new, daily, data which you consider as invaluable 
onto a USB stick, for example, then you wouldn't be in this predicament.

Please, don't take what I say as something I am hitting you over the 
head with. I used to be a Data Base Manager and know the value of 
keeping backups of most valuable data. Mind you, I don't always practice 
what I used to preach - or preach - but if I was to lose my system in 
the next half hour or so I wouldn't have to lose any sleep over the 
event - especially when it came to most valuable, irrecoverable and 
irreplaceable data.

I know that it most difficult to always have exactly what one needs to 
safeguard oneself because of financial restraints, for example, and one 
then needs to come up with viable alternatives to safeguard one' 
valuable data. Humans are most creative when it comes to solving 
problems. It only a matter of sitting down and considering the alternatives.

BTW, without me being nosey, how much were you quoted for having your 
data recovered by the company you sent your HDD to recover your data?

BC

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