Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:34:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> as henrique(?) said ... make backups ..
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> but i would counter that as, it's too late, to backup AFTER you detect
> whacky disks problems ...
> the backup process will aggrevate the flaky disks that is
> misbehaving,
Normally good advice, but his hard disk seems to be working fine when
it does power up.
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> the backed up data could be corrupt and/or wipe out what was
> your previously good backup data, until the oops i've got a
> problem emergency backup
Yes. Never back up a flaky disk on top of a good backup.
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> - have more than 1 backup ... do it automatically and daily
> on a rotating schedule and different media and never
> backup on the same disk and never backup on the same PC
> (or at least physically pull the backup disk out after the backup)
Fortunately, he has backed up his important data.
(except his email backup is on the same PC).
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> c ya
Not unless I send you my picture!
-- hendrik
> alvin
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