What do you do for BACKUP SOLUTIONS

09/25/2005 03:05:09 AM · #1

I am currently using a Lacie external harddrive and am very happy with that, but i am running out of room on my computer and have lots of information ONLY on the external hard drive. I feel to be more or less safe, it would be best to have things in two places. Perhaps on cd's or DVD's, as well as an external hard drive and keep them in these two places for permanent storage.

Or perhaps just two external hard drives?? would that be unwise.

I just dread the thought of trying to save 160 gig's of info onto cd's or dvd's. .... seems like a bit of a daunting task.

HRoxas

Canon EOS-5D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

09/25/2005 03:43:21 AM · #2

Originally posted by leaf:

I just dread the thought of trying to save 160 gig's of info onto cd's or dvd's. .... seems like a bit of a daunting task.

You'd dread it even more if you lose your data or pay $$$ to recover them.

I just came back from a day of shooting 1.5 hrs east of Toronto... turned the computer on to download the photos and my external drive was churning and I didn't like the sound of it. It's unaccessible with a message "error perfoming inpage operation." It's a 500GB Lacie d2 Big Disk and being scanned right now using Easy Recovery Lite. So far it has found 11,361 files with 79 hours left remaining to scan the entire drive. I've used close to 50% space on the drive.

I don't have any back up of anything since the beginning of the year and I may have to pay for it big time to recover them.

This isn't the first time it's happened to me. Two of my partitions in my internal HD are inaccessible but I've been able to recover the files using Easy Recovery Lite. It only allows you to recover 25 files at a time... and I haven't done recovering all the files yet. It gives me a little peace of mind knowing that the files are there...

The few google search turned up something like a physicial error on the drive. I'll do some more research but I'm thinking I have two options right now.... (1) either buy the professional version of the recovery software, I think it's over $450 or send it to a recovery lab, I think they will do it faster than if I were to do the recovery myself, at a hefty price though.

So my suggestion is to back-up each time you transfer from your cf, so right off the bat you have a back-up. It takes few extra minutes but it's all worth it.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

09/25/2005 03:46:33 AM · #3

Originally posted by leaf:

I just dread the thought of trying to save 160 gig's of info onto cd's or dvd's. .... seems like a bit of a daunting task.

The longer you wait the more you have to backup on disc. Start as soon as possible.

09/25/2005 04:15:26 AM · #4

i was thinking of waiting until i got a dvd burner... at 4.5 gigs per cd, it is rather more attractive than 700mb cd's.

but do you all make 2 copies of everything. one of a removable HD and one on a disk, two disks? two drives?

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

09/25/2005 04:17:27 AM · #5

Originally posted by bruchen:

It's unaccessible with a message "error perfoming inpage operation." It's a 500GB Lacie d2 Big Disk and being scanned right now using Easy Recovery Lite.

Check out This Thread for data recovery stuff.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

09/25/2005 04:22:16 AM · #6

Originally posted by leaf:

i was thinking of waiting until i got a dvd burner... at 4.5 gigs per cd, it is rather more attractive than 700mb cd's.

It was pleasant when I came back from the zoo and had to burn 7 cd-rs. It would've been nice to have a dvd burner back then.

HRoxas

Canon EOS-5D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

09/25/2005 04:30:26 AM · #7

Originally posted by leaf:

Originally posted by bruchen:

It's unaccessible with a message "error perfoming inpage operation." It's a 500GB Lacie d2 Big Disk and being scanned right now using Easy Recovery Lite.

Check out This Thread for data recovery stuff.

Thanks for the link Tyler, I'm actually looking at Ontrack Data Recovery, I'm using their lite version of the recovery software and it is good. With the lite version, you see exactly what files are there that are recoverable, you can even preview them before you hit the next button to start recovering.

Azrifel

Fujifilm X100VI

09/25/2005 05:12:43 AM · #8

In 2006 many companies will introduce the Blu-Ray recorders for pc's. Those discs can hold 25Gb of data on a single layer.

Perhaps nurture that external HD and get one of those drives in 2006. :)

faidoi

Pentax K10D

09/25/2005 05:14:58 AM · #9

Originally posted by Azrifel:

In 2006 many companies will introduce the Blu-Ray recorders for pc's. Those discs can hold 25Gb of data on a single layer.

Man, imagine if you scratch that disc :(