http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/ ...a very inexact science Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:10:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/comment-page-1/#comment-200 ID Fri, 01 May 2009 15:55:01 +0000 http://thespiralquirk.com/blog/?p=117#comment-200 RAID plus backup? Yep, that's overkill! I should have configured mine up for RAID after the HD loss, but I ended up with just the daily backup, configured to run at evening mealtime because for some reason, it virtually disables web browsing. RAID plus backup? Yep, that’s overkill! I should have configured mine up for RAID after the HD loss, but I ended up with just the daily backup, configured to run at evening mealtime because for some reason, it virtually disables web browsing.

]]> http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Gill Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:49:54 +0000 http://thespiralquirk.com/blog/?p=117#comment-199 I rescued a few bits'n'bobs, but it took endless hours trying a dozen programs to convince me that my UF params were gone for good :( I now have a nice, shiny copy of Acronis True Image and an incremental backup scheduled for once a day. Also planning on setting up a second RAID HD. Paranoid, or what? ;) I rescued a few bits’n'bobs, but it took endless hours trying a dozen programs to convince me that my UF params were gone for good :( I now have a nice, shiny copy of Acronis True Image and an incremental backup scheduled for once a day. Also planning on setting up a second RAID HD. Paranoid, or what? ;)

]]> http://thespiralquirk.com/2009/04/14/weeping-wailing-gnashing-of-teeth-and-a-smile/comment-page-1/#comment-198 ID Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:52:47 +0000 http://thespiralquirk.com/blog/?p=117#comment-198 That all sounds very familiar, a computing <i>annus horribilis</i>. Mine was 2007: motherboard failure; a tripartite saga with BT (1. intermittent line failure required much work in a box up a pole 2. the week after this was sorted, a neighbour's crane-hobbyist brother brought the lines down with his award-winning vehicle 3. after repairing this, we discovered that BT had crossed three of the lines); and, like yourself, hard-drive failure - I've tried every free piece of software available and only ever managed to retrieve a small group of pointless thumbnails from the internet cache! That all sounds very familiar, a computing annus horribilis. Mine was 2007: motherboard failure; a tripartite saga with BT (1. intermittent line failure required much work in a box up a pole 2. the week after this was sorted, a neighbour’s crane-hobbyist brother brought the lines down with his award-winning vehicle 3. after repairing this, we discovered that BT had crossed three of the lines); and, like yourself, hard-drive failure – I’ve tried every free piece of software available and only ever managed to retrieve a small group of pointless thumbnails from the internet cache!

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