Forum Crash

[indypup]

It will cost upwards of $1000 to recover the data, from a drive that was part of my personal computer. There is also no guarantee that the data I need can be extracted. The hard drive was looked at and it suffered a mechanical failure partially due to heat. The media in the drive was damaged, so data recovery would be hit or miss.

My conclusion is the expense exceeds the real need to recover the data. Yes, I too wish we could recover it, but there was nothing critical to the day to day MSTA activities associated with the data we lost.

There are now 3 back-ups of the forum/website and other server software. One on the server, one on my laptop hard drive and one on an external hard drive. Hopefully that is enough to protect the data in the future.

Why do we not have a complete nightly server back-up? $1.50 per gigabyte per month is why. Currently the is about 135 GB of data on the drive, so current costs would be $202.50 per month for a back-up. This cost will only climb each month as more data is stored on the server.

Jon, I had a drive go bad recently and had to use Kroll Ontrack to recover the data. They still have the drive and it's been about a month now. They told me it would cost anywhere from $700 to $2000 to recover the data if they could. The last status update they gave me was that parts were on order. I'm still hoping they can recover the data. Since it's been so long I'm sure I'm looking at 2K range now.

[Brick]

Damn, I'm glad there isn't anything on my computer that I would spend $2,000 to recover... :eek:

Jon, I had a drive go bad recently and had to use Kroll Ontrack to recover the data. They still have the drive and it's been about a month now. They told me it would cost anywhere from $700 to $2000 to recover the data if they could. The last status update they gave me was that parts were on order. I'm still hoping they can recover the data. Since it's been so long I'm sure I'm looking at 2K range now.

[indypup]

Damn, I'm glad there isn't anything on my computer that I would spend $2,000 to recover... :eek:

Well I'm only out $65 for now but they are still working on it.

The deal with my drive was this...

I bought a 2TB USB3 Seagate external drive from Sam’s club to use to consolidate some data on my home computer and the damn thing failed a day after getting it. I moved my data to it and then rebuilt the original drive(s) by doing the factory restore on it or formatting. I then went to move everything back and noticed that the external drive doesn’t show up in my computers. I tried the drive on a different system and it doesn’t work. I noticed that it makes clicking sounds about 4 or 5 times when you first plug it in and then stops spinning.

[GSRider2Up]

I keep all our finances, health and all family records on our PC for the past 20 years. I rotate 3 external hard drives with different backup software on each and keep 1 in the safe at all times. I couldn't imagine losing all that data. Saw way too many customers faces that lost their data! :-(