> Tom, if everything fails today in the morning. How much would you > charge me to fix those two hard drives if I picked them up and ship them > overnight to your place. Could you do it? and provide your physical > address.?
I'll walk you through restoring your backups. I don't do data recovery, I'm a programmer. I created tomsrtbt because I knew I'd break things. Which I do. But, I don't use tomsrtbt to fix bad hard drives, I use it to restore tape backups. It is no accident that tomsrtbt includes a lot of scsi support, mt, tar, cpio, pax, dd, and nc, and cdrom support, in case you put your backup on a CD. I have 3 Exabytes, one a 10-tape changer. I have never actually tried to fix a hard drive that really was in need, I've never used debugfs, I've never manually edited a partition table without saved copy of it. I've never had to... If you needed something special added to tomsrtbt, you could pay me to do it, I prostitute myself every day and am willing to do anything, see http://not.toms.net/twiki/bin/view/Tomsrtbt/SpecialCustomizations. Maybe someone on the list would like to work on a list of data recovery services and/or companies? Such a list would be welcome on the wiki... -Tom
