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Well... the worst happened!

After reading your post I laughed, cried and cringed in horror. Now, where did I hear that before?

In truth, I sincerely hope the data is recovered. Too much work, too many prospects, too much hopw to be wiped out entirely.
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WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!!!

Got my recovered data back from the Lab this afternoon, and guess what: 100% recovery!!

I bought a single 1TB Seagate HDD and put it into an external enclosure with eSATA connectivity for them to transfer the recovered data onto, and they pretty much managed to replicate every single file.

I got my old HDDs back from the failed array and will be sending them back to Western Digital for replacement, which means I get to create yet another backup drive!

I have also built a new RAID-0 array in place of the old one. Same deal, 2X 500GB drives, but this time with 32mb cache each instead of 16mb.... giving me a whopping 64mb of effective cache. Also decided to go with Seagate this time instead of Western Digital, so we will see how we go.

I have learnt a lesson from this... I now run both the RAID-0 1TB alongside the External eSATA 1TB and backup nightly... and now thanks to eSATA it only takes an hour (even less if I tell the scheduler to ignore files that have not been updated).

All I can say is...... *PHEW*

Now back to work!

-Cub. =o)

P.S. Many thanks for all your responses and support guys and gals!
Hey congrats bud, it's good to hear that everything was recovered. You'll have to keep us posted on how everything else turns out with the recovered data.
That is a lucky break mate! Glad to hear you got your stuff back!

Does that mean you still get your £8000? :D

-Fred
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Wonderful news Cub. I am very happy for you.
Travis Jacobs

"You might not sound so idiotic if there were at least something excitable in my post to begin with..." --Baf
That's not good news at all. Geez. If they do recover it all, are you going to back it all up??

Hope they sort it for you. What have you told ABC?!?

Sounds something that would only happen to Tex
David
Demonlawyer wrote:That's not good news at all. Geez. If they do recover it all, are you going to back it all up??

Hope they sort it for you. What have you told ABC?!?

Sounds something that would only happen to Tex
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Travis Jacobs

"You might not sound so idiotic if there were at least something excitable in my post to begin with..." --Baf
Cub, glad to hear they recovered it all, that's got to be a big sigh of relief right there!
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Great News Cub...
Don't buy any Lotto Tickets for awhile, because I think you may have used up all your luck with that Drive Recovery...

Congrats, glad to hear they were able to save everything for you...
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-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Ha! I love my post and the timing of it. I had only seen the disaster bits, and three posts below your post saying you're back in business I'm saying I'm sorry to hear it. :)

I'd found this in the meantime as a christmas idea... http://store.apple.com/uk_smb_67752/pro ... 0000000295

Well done about the ABC thing too.

It's been ages since I've seen your Masque of the Red Death. Is it still watchable anywhere?
David
Man.... and i thought i was going to puke just from losing junk data..... ex 800 NES roms..... password files.... lists of phone numbers, ..... etc....

well now i just feel dumb =P

I did make 2 dvd backups of my photos though because of this post. =)

wedding, honeymoon.... misc others.

my wife would take off my sack if i lost those.
Matt
I'm really late to this Cub but I just wanted to say that I'm really glad it all worked out and to congratulate you on the $8000 dollar deal, that sounds like an amazing opportunity you've got yourself there. All the best. :)
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