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st0ned · 12-19-2010, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

If it is critical and they can't get it, there are places that can get data off the deadest of drives.

Not necessarily.

The drive you drove down to that one recovery place for me was a total failure, even after they spent over a month trying to pull the data off. I do appreciate you going out of your way for me though, that was not required on your part.

I learned the hard way that backups are the most important thing you can have when running an online business. I try to ensure that I have backups both on the hosts end, and my end.

The failed drive I had years ago cost me AT LEAST 100 websites. I was able to recover ZERO data and had no backups on my end. As a result, I had hundreds of sites drop that I was not able to bring back online. I was willing to pay the data recovery company the $3,000 or whatever it was, but even they were unsuccessful in pulling any data for me.

Needless to say it was the worse thing to happen to me since being in business, but also taught me one of my most important lessons.

Though I blamed the host for the longest time I have come to realize that HD failure is just something that happens and nobody is really to blame in most cases. Although using old drives increases your chance of this happening. Be smart, get backups, even if you have never had issues before.