Nuuuuuu!!!

Started by BabyCheetah, February 06, 2012, 10:05:25 PM

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BabyCheetah

Never thought this day would come. I unfortunately had a major HD failure (in the middle of backing up files too!) and lost 400 gigs of raw furry footage, edited projects, and related furry files. Surprisingly I have not killed myself and i'm not freaking out. I've come to accept it. Theres a slim chance I may get it recovered but I'll know in a day or 2.  This includes rainfurrest, electrofuzz 1 & 2, many bowling nights, several skating (both ice and indoor arena), cos & effect, and the 98%-complete long format halloween walk. D=

Just thought I'd say this so you know why you'll never see certain videos on my youtube channel.
my furry vids are here: URL:http://www.youtube.com/user/Kheetah100

Zen

You didn't have backups? :o

FurryJackman

That just plain stinks to be in that position.

There are always lessons to be learned: Data redundancy is key, no matter what.

Hope things get sorted out...

BabyCheetah

Quote from: Zen on February 06, 2012, 10:16:00 PM
You didn't have backups? :o
only got 100 gigs backed up before it failed... so i saved some.
my furry vids are here: URL:http://www.youtube.com/user/Kheetah100

Tai

Awwww that sucks, though hopefuly you'll be able to pull some data off the drive or drives.

Kitten

OH NOES!!!!!

If you can't get them back, we might be a bit heart broken but, there will be many more events to film in the future!!
Kitten, Alex
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" ~Robert A. Heinlein & Robert J. Hanlon

BabyCheetah

Quote from: Kitten on February 07, 2012, 12:15:03 AM
OH NOES!!!!!

If you can't get them back, we might be a bit heart broken but, there will be many more events to film in the future!!


Thats how I see it. There will be tons more opportunities. Its not like the footage was for a client who is paying me to produce something. Its all for fun. And there moar to be had. If I do get it recovered, then its a bonus.
my furry vids are here: URL:http://www.youtube.com/user/Kheetah100

graneth

No guarantees, but try a program called "Recuva" by Piriform.  http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Free to download, and useful for attempting to recover lost data.
Anything is better than nothing no?
Good luck.
One must explore all aspects of their mind to find the true path.

mediar

Hey dude. If you want, bring your HD to bowling this week, along with a second drive to transfer the videos to, and I can run a couple programs I have at work. They are pretty decent at recovering data.
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those that don't.

Arooo!

BabyCheetah

Thats an awesome gesture Mediar... But right now the HD is at the computer shop... its an ssd drive and he's trying multiple methods with different recovery software. I figure he's got more background at this than even me (even though I did run a computer business for 10 years).

all because of a lack of firmware update this nightmare happened! grrrr
my furry vids are here: URL:http://www.youtube.com/user/Kheetah100

FurryJackman

Whoa. Yeah, SSDs are hard to recover from. Magnetic media is easy, but SSDs are meant for programs and programs only for that specific reason...

Trapa

If you'd like you could get a hold of me privatly and I could help you build a server for your house with raid and such so that this won't happen again. I just built myself a esxi server for just around 400$ You probably would be better suited to something like openfiler.

FurryJackman

Is there an advantage to that over a Drobo? I know it's probably non-proprietary and open source, but maintenance might be a little not as user-friendly.

Trapa

Quote from: FurryJackman on February 15, 2012, 10:20:18 PM
Is there an advantage to that over a Drobo? I know it's probably non-proprietary and open source, but maintenance might be a little not as user-friendly.

Would really depend on what your wanting to do with it. This is a web interface much the same as openNas, and many of the others. There is one major advantage with qnap and drobo. The ability to replace disks, and scale your disk-volume size. The disadvantage to that is Massive price tags, and the fact that those devices are as limited in term's of maximum storage capacity as any other storage device on the planet. Oh and with their disk-upgrade, I feel (no scienfitic evidence to back this up) that your at a extreme risk of failure while your upgrading disk sizes.

Tonk

 :o With an SSD that could hold that much data I would be more worried about the cost of the dead drive it's self!