How do you back up your personal data?

[TheFaQQer]

Manual backup to NAS (QNAP 6.5TB with RAID).

Photos all go to Flickr.

Really important documents go to dropbox or are in email as well.

I'm also considering backing this on Kickstarter as an alternative backup cloud device.

[Spacecadet]

but have 90GB of photos and about the same in home videos so would be a pig to upload to start with...

Leave it running for a week, it will probably finish sooner than you think

[TheFaQQer]

you can send it off to get it recovered from the platters I think

I tried that and all I got was a video of The Great Pretender

[Lockhouse]

I have a Raided home server, 2 x offline 2Tb drives and many, many DVDs.

[monkfish]

@OP - stupid question but... you have confirmed its the disk itself and not the chassis - last few I have looked at have turned out to be reasonable disks inside awful cheap eastern-manufacture casings and its the electronics in the case thats failed, eliciting similar read/write faults.

Each time I've pulled the disk out and connected direct with SATA>>USB cable they're read/recovered fine.

Probably barking up wrong tree as you did mention testdisk - nice little tool, but just asking in case...

[Platypus]

^ WHS

Good idea

Last disk failure I had was an enclosure failure not the disc

For lost data I've had some success with this: Unformat and File Recovery Software for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7/Windows8
although if the disk is in the process of hard failure, running a tool like this which works the disc very hard will ensure that it fails sooner rather than later. Caveat Emptor.

[redgiant]

Sorry to hear about the data loss

I have been using a WHS2011 server setup at home for the last two years that cost less than £300 (HP Microserver + WHS2011 + 2x 2TB HDDs in RAID0) that backs up all my machines nightly (12:00 - 2:00). Once setup with a plug-in called Lights-Out it turns on each day for the backup period or on demand whenever I want to pull content from it (it also stores all my media and downloads).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/ProLiant-N40...pr_product_top

[AtW]

Sign up for facebook and they'll back up all your personal data with you...

[stek]

How do you back up your personal data?

Just got a Sun L9 LTO1 autochanger, free from my kit supplier cos I get loads from him, will do 900gb uncompressed, not bad.

Except I've no tapes...

[The Spartan]

@OP - stupid question but... you have confirmed its the disk itself and not the chassis - last few I have looked at have turned out to be reasonable disks inside awful cheap eastern-manufacture casings and its the electronics in the case thats failed, eliciting similar read/write faults.

Each time I've pulled the disk out and connected direct with SATA>>USB cable they're read/recovered fine.

Probably barking up wrong tree as you did mention testdisk - nice little tool, but just asking in case...

Nah that's not a stupid question, I did indeed take it out of the enclosure and got it to run for a bit till it packed up completely and died I managed to get 10% of the overall pictures on there back. Lesson learned but a harsh one at that, I blame technology lol as otherwise they'd have all been printed off and put in albums before the advent of digital cameras