Whoa.. that was close..

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2015/07/01 12:52:34 (permalink)

Whoa.. that was close..

Copying from an older backup drive to a newer, larger one, I managed to delete an entire folder (all my project files) out of pure stupidity.

LUCKILY I realised it and shut the drive down immediately. After a lot of googling I bought Wondershare Data Recovery ($40) and I must say I'm impressed. It recovered the entire directory safely.
 
Close one..

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    Mesh
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    Re: Whoa.. that was close.. 2015/07/01 12:58:52 (permalink)
    You mean to say you didn't back up your projects?
     
     
     
    Glad to hear you recovered it though.

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    Re: Whoa.. that was close.. 2015/07/01 13:01:25 (permalink)
    It's always good to have a backup of your project directory...
    just because of "ooops" like this...

    Glad you were able to get it all back!


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    Re: Whoa.. that was close.. 2015/07/01 13:08:10 (permalink)
    Lucky, indeed!
     
    The absolute dumbest thing I've ever done, PC-wise, was when I upgraded from DOS 3 to DOS 5 (almost everybody skipped DOS 4, a true disaster). At the time, I had a PC with a 330 MB hard drive, set up as a veritable alphabet of 32 MB "drives" (from C: to M: if I remember correctly). DOS 5 was the first to support "drives" larger than 32 MB. I also had a tape drive on the PC for backup. I had a batch file that I used for backing up "drives" to tape. I wrote a master batch file that called my backup batch file one time each for each "drive". I started up the batch file, watched for a bit as the backup software was writing to my tape.
     
    Backing up 330 MB to tape took a LONG time, so I took a long lunch and had a couple of beers. When I got back, the backup had completed, so I reformatted the HD, installed DOS 5, installed the tape drive software and restored my files.
     
    Well, that was the plan. The only problem was that I'd screwed up the command line and set it to overwrite instead of append, so the only thing on the tape was the contents of Drive M:. Which, at the time, happened to be empty. So was my backup tape.
     
    Three years of work (millions of dollars of customer quotes and proposals) gone. I had to have my sales guys fax me the quotes I'd written so I could recreate them.
     
    I simply cannot describe the feelings I had when I realized that my backup tape was blank. Well, not in a family-friendly place such as this forum.
     
    I am happy for you, Ludwig!

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    LJB
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    Re: Whoa.. that was close.. 2015/07/01 15:13:48 (permalink)
    Nope guys, I have TWO backups of each project... but I was backing up my older backups drive ... as one does :O) I could not fit all my past work onto a drive if I tried, so this was an older set of archived work.
    post edited by LJB - 2015/07/01 15:21:17

    Ludwig Bouwer, One Big Room Studios.
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    Re: Whoa.. that was close.. 2015/07/01 15:17:52 (permalink)
    Could be the next big thing that music stores sell - a room for back up storage. Of course, you will need to back that up with two other rooms just in case.
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