On Friday, Aug 29, 2003, at 11:24 US/Eastern, Herb Chong wrote:
the failing drive died during
the backup operation, taking my backup with it since the read failed and the
clone operation failed as a result.
What a coincidence Herb...my primary drive failed during a backup two days ago. And the last full backup I did was over a month ago. The data recovery place I called quoted $900 to $2,700 to do a data recovery operation, far more than I could afford right now, so I decided to take a chance on Drive 10's recovery capabilities. Thankfully and amazingly, it did a great job and it doesn't look like I lost anything recent or important. But I won't know for sure.
only one backup isn't enough.
You're absolutely right. When drives were smaller, I used to make five or more backup sets rotated daily. I think I need to invest in a new tape drive.
--jc
