Bad day for my book

[everettdavis]

I am looking into Dropbox as well. The IDrive will work well for my wife's iPad and iPhone so I may do both.

Everett

[mdiPhotography]

Everitt, that is terrible, especially considering the amount of work you are putting into the book.

I have 6 TB of images and would be devastated if I were to lose them. My recipe for backup that I preach to friends and family and anyone else who will listen is this:

I have a 500 GB SSD drive with only my programs on it. Reason being is that if I get a virus, it usually hits your operating system. I manually clone that drive to another SSD drive every few months so if I get a virus or an update to one of my programs doesn't work or hoses other programs, I simply switch them out and I am back up and running in less than 5 minutes.

My data files, images, documents, scanned records, Shopsmith invoices(!) are kept on an 8 TB drive. I have a second 8 TB drive in my PC that is backed up continuously with the first one.

I also us a service called BackBlaze that continuously backs up the first 8TB to the cloud. That saves me in case the house burns down or the PC is stolen or damaged.

The great added benefit to the BackBlaze storage is that if I am traveling and need to access a file I log into my account, search that mirror image of my hard drive and I can download the file that I need.

Hope all these responses give you some good alternatives.

[everettdavis]

I did not lose any images. Only the text

Everett

[algale]

"Only" the text?

[dusty]

Everett, are you certain that you don't have backup copies in the background. Example, in Word, if you open the document list and drill down to the end of the list you will find an option to "recover documents".

[algale]

Sometimes even a broken drive can have files lifted off of it from someone with the right hardware/software.

[JPG]

Everett, are you certain that you don't have backup copies in the background. Example, in Word, if you open the document list and drill down to the end of the list you will find an option to "recover documents".

How does a crashed drive become readable at all? How do programs(word) get loaded either?

[everettdavis]

Everett, are you certain that you don't have backup copies in the background. Example, in Word, if you open the document list and drill down to the end of the list you will find an option to "recover documents".

How does a crashed drive become readable at all? How do programs(word) get loaded either?

The hard drive that crashed was external to the computer and attached as network storage. The only thing it contained was the text of my book.

It is possible (at great expense) to have a new disc drive and the old disc drive disassembled in a computer clean room and parts that failed replaced IF there was no internal physical damage to the drive platters to areas in which recovered data exists. Normally that would be a motor. In my case rattling indicates physical damage exists.

The read write heads in the vacuum sealed drives fly so close to the platters a particle of smoke would appear like a boulder. In essence if it were a car engine, the crankshaft broke in half and shredded the rest. Non recoverable.