External Hard Drive Failure

xboxmom

xboxmom

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So it finally happened to me. All of my Scrapbook kits that I keep on my external drive have been corrupted by hard drive failure. :/ I was able to rescue 3 designers worth of my Gingerscraps folders. The rest are 100% corrupted. I was very happy that all my Layouts in their high resolution formats are saved on Smugmug but I no longer have all my PSD files for each of them and of course the loss of all my kits that were on the drive which was 98% of them. Sigh....I guess it could have been worse, if I hadn't saved all my layouts online, trying to look at the bright side! :cryhard
 
{{{HUGS}}} I'm trying to help in the bright side department, hard to find something I know, but it could have been all of your pictures. I know it's not comparing apples to apples when you have designers depending on you.
 
We just had a big discussion on that a month or so ago. It is so rough. You have my sympathy and an overwhelming urge to check and double check all my backups.
 
Yes please Everyone BACK UP! I have some older drives with a lot of my really old scrapbook supplies and Layouts, but all my GS stuff was on the new drive that decided after 1 too many times of falling off the table to not work anymore. Back up ladies, it really sucks losing your stuff!
 
xboxmom said:
Yes please Everyone BACK UP! I have some older drives with a lot of my really old scrapbook supplies and Layouts, but all my GS stuff was on the new drive that decided after 1 too many times of falling off the table to not work anymore. Back up ladies, it really sucks losing your stuff!
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After falling off the table too many times? You are so funny. I am so sorry you have lost all your scrapbook supplies from GS, but I am laughing at your description about what happened. I do hope you are able to get them back. Have you tried taking the drive in for recovery?
 
Awe (((hugs))) girl...I can't even imagine. I set up Backblaze a couple years ago and thankfully have never needed it...but the $5/mo is worth every penny for my peace of mind.
 
CindyB said:
Awe (((hugs))) girl...I can't even imagine. I set up Backblaze a couple years ago and thankfully have never needed it...but the $5/mo is worth every penny for my peace of mind.
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In the hard drive horror stories thread, someone mentioned backblaze does not back up everything, whether it was backblaze or the user, I do not know, but it might be worth checking.
 
I'm so sorry!! After our discussion a month or so ago about this, I re-backed everything up so have my stuff all on my "big" laptop and on my external along with having everything on my OneDrive account.
 
for backblaze users -it seems like it woudl take forever to backup lots of stuff

for example any idea how long to back up a 4 TB drive that is practically full.

currently have photos and kits and lo on regular hard d rive and backed up to external. some photos backed up to flickr but it is a very slow process to do it manually.
 
zanthia said:
for backblaze users -it seems like it woudl take forever to backup lots of stuff

for example any idea how long to back up a 4 TB drive that is practically full.

currently have photos and kits and lo on regular hard d rive and backed up to external. some photos backed up to flickr but it is a very slow process to do it manually.
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I'll bet it is a lot less time than recovering all your missing data :) I think if you just set it going it eventually catches up. Even it is days and days, or even weeks, it will eventually catch up to where you are. I have never done an online backup, but I think I might start. I have external hard drive and it always feels as though something is behind on being backed up.
 
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