Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:02:55 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk Data Recovery Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005051200060.686-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000505164504.25778A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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On Fri, 5 May 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, David Scheidt wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 5 May 2000, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > > > > > > Depends. On a desktop, you can easily clone the drives. On a > > > > notebook, how do you clone the drives or do images to CDs without taking > > > > the drive out and connecting it to a desktop? > > > > > > rdump? > > > > Wouldn't that only work if the machine was connected to the > > network? > > Yeah, there's that. Laptops are a problem to keep backup up. I think the > best solution is not to have much on them. If all you have is real data, > you can backup to floppy. There isn't 2 megs of real data on my laptop most > of the time. I leave a copy of mail on a server, and back up the base > configuration, so the only thing I have to worry about is whatever I am > working on. That fits handly on a floppy, or I can copy it some other > machine the next time I am on a network. A couple of megs doesn't take that > long to move over even a failrlyh slow modem. Normally, I backup to both a second HD and ftp it to another machine on the local network for redundancy. On the notebook, however, it just crashed all of a sudden so the only choice I have now is data recovery. I have my drive at PRC (www.prcdiskdrives.com) who can't repair or recover the data since they only probably do software based recoveries and refer me to Ontrack which is expensive and you lose $100 even if you don't get anything back. That's why I was asking if anyone knew any companies that they've used that are good since all the advertising on the websites seems to indicate they are the best and then there is adeciding factor of who to send it to. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the messagehome | help
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