How do you deal with the loss of a hard drive and all the data on it?

How do you deal with the loss of a hard drive and all the data on it?

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i buy a new one and copy the data from my backup
you have a backup, right?

When this happen i get wasted and cry myself to sleep

I depricate drives before they fail. I keep backups

I remember that I probably didn't need those videos of thai prostitutes getting cream-pied

not an issue for me, i back up my data to five different sources

I have no worthwhile data on offline drives to begin with :)

cry.
send it to data recovery specialist
or cry more
if it's sensitive data

you should also be doing this

>backups
Just go to Sup Forums and start a reaction faces thread.

I don't deal at all. All my sensitive data is backed up in multiple places, everything that's not backed up can be easily downloaded or otherwise recreated.

Thanks for your 5k just because you were too cheap to buy an external drive for $100 :^)

I restore the data from Google Drive.

It takes a while to download several terabytes, but it's alright. At least the data isn't lost.

Why the fuck would you pay the extortionate amount Google charges instead of just buying a few drives?

I can afford 8 euro per month.
I was already paying 4 euro per month for having my domain hooked up to Gmail, so I'm really just paying 4 euro extra per month.

Also, I do have a few extra drives. GDrive is just my off-site backup, because even a million drives isn't gonna save me, if my house burns down.

I wouldn’t know because I don’t lose data, cause I’m not a retard who keeps anything important in only one place - on a physical device that I know can break at any time without warning and lose everything.

Have them backed up on different drives and in some cloud

>thumb drives in my pocket
>fire thwarted

1. Denial and isolation
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

>cry.
>send it to data recovery specialist because i'm autist
>he discovers my loli collection
>tells me that disc is unrecoverable and ads my collection to his
fuck this shit anons

i only own 100gb worth of data i would care about losing and it's all safely backed up to the google botnet :)

Seems a bit cumbersome.
That amount of thumbdrives is also not particularly economically viable.

>I can afford 8 euro per month.
2tb on google drive is fucking 100 euro a montj

I don't care, because I want new drive anyway.

1. Crush it with hammer
2. Heat it up
3. Trash
4. Buy new one
5. Install OS, restore shit from backu-... Oh, I don't have one.
6. Download 100+ Gig of porn again.

No it's not.
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I'm using the GSuite Business. They don't enforce the 5-users-for-unlimited-storage thing. If you sign up as a single user, you'll get unlimited storage.

I take money from my mom and buy a new hddd, then I download torrents.

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1. Pretend that you're able to get your data back (Denial)
2. Get frustrated when you failed (Anger)
3. Tell yourself that the data you lost is unimportant. (Bargaining)
4. Recall that Sup Forums told you to back up but you think data loss will never happen to you. Cry a lot and ask Sup Forums about how do deal with the loss of a hard drive. (Depression)
5. Accept that you're too poor to get another hard disk for backup, and data loss will always plague you. (Acceptance)

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What happens if you lost the principal HD and the back up?

Keketykek, you will be banned...

>trusting other people with your data

I trust Google more with my encrypted backups, than I trust myself with not setting my house on fire.

What is the best and fastest way to periodically backup your important data?

>3. Bargaining
???
6. Retribution

I only keep games, Sup Forums images, and porn on my hard drive.

Anything important gets backed up to a cloud.

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>Anything important gets backed up to a cloud.
But you just listed everything important

Just setup a raid 1. HDDs are much cheaper than they used to be, especially during the "flooding" that literally doubled prices back in 2012

Google has lost people's data before.

Just because it's in their cloud servers doesn't mean you get transparency about silent corruption and the like on their end.

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I've still got my HDDs mirrored, so it's not like I haven't got an onsite backup.

Now, if all my drives were to die at once AND Google deleted my files, I'll just assume the universe hates me and I somehow deserved to get my files deleted.
But the chances of all my drives dying while Google loses my files seems very, very small to me. So that's a risk I'm willing to take.

Fire up spinrite and save it.

Build a NAS so you never need to worry again

i am the only one that store medias on DVDs?
by media i mean films, music, photos, that kind of stuff

DVDs have an organic layer that will yellow in time and become unreadable.

Consider using mdiscs that do not have an organic dye layer.

what if i keep my standard DVDs in a metal box, away from day light?
They should get preserved enough for a lifetime right?

Back up the data you care about offsite
Put your animu in a RAID5/6

By killing myself, highly recommend

USB drives are kinda unkillables right? i have the same USB stick since so much time i forgot when i got it, like more than a decade ago, maybe it's because i safely remove it every time

No, USB drives are actually very killable.
I've had a shitlot of them die randomly.

I restore from backup.

No. It's just that most people lost them or break them before they have a chance to fail.

I just download it again. All my data is torrents.

I simply buy a new one using the bitcoin wallet that was on it

"if this magically starts working again, I'll start keeping backups of everything and will never hit my mom again!"

Instead of backing things up on the cloud, for now all I keep is a flash drive with my PGP private key and KeePass database in an encrypted partition that's 1GB big.

The drive looks like a 7GB thumb drive with some university assignments on it to everyone who plugs it to a Windows machine, and in case I ever need to store stuff online, it'll be encrypted first.

On my desktop I feel nothing because I have backups.
On my server I feel nothing because I have RAID.
If multiple HDDs fail on the server I also have backups of that to USB drives, another server, and cloud storage.

You're talking about an issue that was solved before you were born OP. Quit being poor and slap together a server with used parts.

Replace and rebuild RAID.

the external drive it the one that failed

I had a single partition with almost 1tb of data..did a defragment and then it was junk a WD My passport. 1 TB.. plug it in and it freezes the computer..

>maybe it's because i safely remove it every time

Yes, safe remove gives it superpowers.