Eriol
2006-03-09, 01:31 PM
Well, not a death or anything, but definitely "omg this sucks hardcore" for GUComics (http://www.guforums.com/showthread.php?t=8315#8315). He lost ALL of his originals of his comics when his back-up failed while restoring his "working" computer.
From the link:
GU down for I don't know how long...
It's all gone, all 6 years of it... and all my commissions, emails, contacts...
I'm devastated. But, currently looking for answers.
With any luck I'll have the name of a good datarecovery specialist before the day is out. And, I won't get news that it's gone forever or that it's going to cost me ten thousand dollars.
That being said....
What I had for backing up my computer was a Maxtor 300Gig one touch system. When I first plugged it in everything was happy. So, I started moving stuff over to my freshly upgraded system. Halfway through reading one of the directories disaster struck. A little notification popped up telling me there was an error. From that point on the drive has been telling that there is a corrupted filestructure and that the volume is no longer readable.
Apparently backing up your computer isn't even safe.
Basically the lesson here is: back-up to MORE than one other device. Considering The Giant does his work mostly on the computer as well, I figure this is somewhat applicable.
From the link:
GU down for I don't know how long...
It's all gone, all 6 years of it... and all my commissions, emails, contacts...
I'm devastated. But, currently looking for answers.
With any luck I'll have the name of a good datarecovery specialist before the day is out. And, I won't get news that it's gone forever or that it's going to cost me ten thousand dollars.
That being said....
What I had for backing up my computer was a Maxtor 300Gig one touch system. When I first plugged it in everything was happy. So, I started moving stuff over to my freshly upgraded system. Halfway through reading one of the directories disaster struck. A little notification popped up telling me there was an error. From that point on the drive has been telling that there is a corrupted filestructure and that the volume is no longer readable.
Apparently backing up your computer isn't even safe.
Basically the lesson here is: back-up to MORE than one other device. Considering The Giant does his work mostly on the computer as well, I figure this is somewhat applicable.