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I used to do forensics in a previous life.. The freezer trick is a lifesaver.
If the drive clicks or chatters (loudly) TURN IT OFF IMMEDIATELY. All you are doing is damaging the platters and making it harder to recover the data.
If the drive doesn't click or chatter and it can't be mounted via USB let me know. I have some tools that may help.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
Oh.. and store all your data on a RAID-6 (or better) NAS.
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
I had Laptop of Denver successfully recover my data last year for about $100.00.
I don't trust or recommend Best Buy to anyone.
Re: Backup Your Data
Going forward, I'll have weekly full image backups to my server, all documents pictures etc will hit another backup on a separate physical drive on the server and finally must have documents will be in Dropbox as well.
It's all prepped and now I just need to remember to do it nightly/weekly.
That sounds like a good plan. Do you have a program that will automatically back up your information where you want? That way you won't need to worry about remembering.Originally Posted by blacklabel
How does one back up their data? I wonder if I should back up the files and DB from COAR.
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No need. Those massive server crashes give us all plenty to talk about when the system comes back up
Re: Backup Your Data
I'll have it scheduled with the cloning software to complete it's image on a specific night and time then shutdown the laptop once it's completed.
One thing I love about the newer versions of Mac OS X ( the last 3 or 4 ) is built in back up. Mines does it over the wireless network hourly.
I've been backing up my data on an external hard drive because the HD in my laptop seems to be doing werid things. I can save my files, photos, etc. fine, but I can't seem to get Windows 7 to make a disk image. It fails every time. I've been troubleshooting this for a few days now.
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