Hard drive failure
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What would you tell a client if your hard drive with a photo shoot for a client died and there wasn't a way to retrieve the photos?
- Jnr_Madison0
Nice working with you.
- flashbender0
have you checked to see if they are gone for good or do you just assume they are?
Most times data from a dead HD can be retrieved, but it will cost you.
so the real question is how much is the client and everyone that client is networked with worth to you?
- what up mang!designbot
- hey buddy!
How's that lil one doing?flashbender - Crazy as ever, which = he's doing great. :)designbot
- hooray!flashbender
- designbot0
^Yup what he said.
If the drive mechanics failed you will need to send it off and pay to have the data recovered. It's very expensive but can be done.
If the drive still works but the data is gone, you can most likely recover the data cheaper and easier through recovery software. If this is the case let me know and I can recommend some to you.
- Coffeemaker0
ANOTHER LESSON LEARNED> BACKUP KIDS!!!!
- lukus_W0
This is the kind of thing that gives me nightmares
- *(goes and starts backup)lukus_W
- i don't worry at all. i lose clients by the tons..Coffeemaker
- Coffeemaker0
both my extra back up drives died on me. the server had backups too, but that was bombed in an accidental nuclear war.
- sigg0
*stops working and backs up everything to external drive and server*
- flashbender0
speaking of such things who is using online storage/backup services?
livedrive (http://livedrive.com/) looks like a good deal, but I am a bit leery about putting all my backups (software, projects, music which may or may not be legal ...) online.
- that's what I'm tinking aboutlukus_W
- unlimited backups, 100 pound/yr.flashbender
- space I mean - unlimited spaceflashbender
- huglife0
2 weeks ago (while my boss was on holiday) our raid drives busted losing 3.4 TB of work, and at the time we had no back-up!!! had to send the drives off to a specialist and eventually got everything back! but cost a massive £14,000! so you can get work back at a massive cost and I suppose make sure from now on you have a back-up!
- ribit0
I'm using Amazon S3 through the JungleDisk service, very configurable, reliable, seems cheap..
- ribit0
The good online services use encryption, then you can happily backup all your important personal settings, financial stuff and work stuff...
- flashbender0
mobile me seems like a rip off - overpriced for what it is/does
- depends if you have a lot of macs and actually need all the synching stuff it doesribit
- yeah, but something like ivedrive provides synching as well as mobile synch features for a lot less.flashbender