Re: [LAU] [ot] Data recovery

Hi Julien

Sorry to hear that.

I had a RAID failure earlier in the year and had to buy a 1TB USB HDD to
back up my entire /home from the remaining two drives, then reformat the
RAID and copy everything back from the external drive. After building
the RAID again, at one point I thought I'd accidentally deleted
everything from the external drive, losing six years' music, photos,
everything. Fortunately I hadn't, I'd just confused myself, but it was a
horrible sinking feeling like nothing I've ever felt before. Yours won't
be as bad, but still very frustrating and annoying, so I sympathise.

Sorry, I can't actually help with the recovery, but just advice from
personal experience. I used to back-up by copying Ardour project
folders, which at many, many GBs a time just for changes to the Ardour
file was really insane (and why I'd almost run out of space).

Here's the advice: get yourself an external drive -- large ones are
pretty cheap these days -- and use something like rsync to do
incremental back-ups and get into the habit of backing up every day
after you've been recording or mixing. I use luckyBackup which is a nice
GUI frontend for rsync and it's very powerful.

Best of luck with the recovery

Q

On 09/09/12 16:11, Julien Claassen wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I'm sorry to post this here. I've just deleted two days worth of
> recording work by accident or lack of concentration. It has just
> happened. Any trick to get the files back. I think, nothing should have
> been written on the partition yet. It's mostly .wav-files, so I can't
> just grep the device file for the partition for some text. The computer
> has one more partition, but it's smaller, so methods, that require a
> full image of this partition are out.
> Thanks for any advise! and kind regards
> Julien
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