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Client called Friday afternoon, one of his three workstations quit working after it'd been exhibiting slow reaction to any task or HID input for a short time. They tried a "Restore to Earlier Date" operation that failed to complete. And no recent backups! He brought it to me Saturday morning, a non-booting doorstop. He also brought a new HP machine in hopes it wouldn't be needed and he could return it, box unopened. First I put a known good power supply in the doorstop (it's ALWAYS the power supply, right?) and no joy. Pulled the drive out and used a BlacX docking station to have a look-see to determine if his employee's files were intact. Seemed they were. A large number of *.PDF and *.XLS files, nearly 200Gig of data. Spent the first half of the day watching a green bar crawl across the screen as the transfers were shoved through USB ports from the BlacX to a 256G thumb drive, just to back up the data. A number of the files were reported as corrupted in the process. Now about to open the box of the new machine and configure it, then ferret the files from the thumb drive to it.

Betting most who viewed this post got bored just reading about it. :wink-new:

BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!! *sheesh*
 
DrEntropy said:
Client called Friday afternoon, one of his three workstations quit working after it'd been exhibiting slow reaction to any task or HID input for a short time. They tried a "Restore to Earlier Date" operation that failed to complete. And no recent backups! He brought it to me Saturday morning, a non-booting doorstop. He also brought a new HP machine in hopes it wouldn't be needed and he could return it, box unopened. First I put a known good power supply in the doorstop (it's ALWAYS the power supply, right?) and no joy. Pulled the drive out and used a BlacX docking station to have a look-see to determine if his employee's files were intact. Seemed they were. A large number of *.PDF and *.XLS files, nearly 200Gig of data. Spent the first half of the day watching a green bar crawl across the screen as the transfers were shoved through USB ports from the BlacX to a 256G thumb drive, just to back up the data. A number of the files were reported as corrupted in the process. Now about to open the box of the new machine and configure it, then ferret the files from the thumb drive to it.

Betting most who viewed this post got bored just reading about it. :wink-new:

BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!! *sheesh*
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My NAS drive just died - which is the backup, sadly including a few computers no longer with us. Our tenant is a computer geek and can find the files - and transfer them but, till now not with their proper names - just file 1, file 2 etc. etc. arghh
 
The backup scheme I've got clients on (well, most of 'em anyway) uses two "Passport" drives, 1Tb each. Alternating them on a schedule depending on the amount of data created daily.

Sorry to learn of the dilemma, JP. I've done the same for a friend who'd lost all her family photos, only copy was on her laptop.
 
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