First, I would like to thank natebarnz, obakesan , and cobain who left me comments and encouragements for safe data recovery. It means a lot to me. And the great news is that I can now connect to the Drobo again. It's currently in the rebuild/relayout process, but I can access the data. As matter of fact, I am copying some of the data off of it while the process is going. The copying is very slow at around 9MB/s, but it's going.
I want to thank god who answered my prayers. Somewhere out there, the higher power is watching over me. I am grateful.
Tomorrow I am going to buy a 2 TB drive and copy everything over from the Drobo. I don't feel safe having all the eggs in one basket.
So far everything is looking good.
That's great news!
ReplyDeleteGreat news indeed. I think your redundancy option will put your mind at ease. Data storage can be so cheap these days you could even go the next step and create a similar Drobo local redundancy on your main system. Then you have a redundant backup of a redundant system. Obviously off site storage is the real key to having a, almost, fail safe option but that might be overboard for your needs.
ReplyDeleteCongratulation on the successful return
@natebarnz: I think I will have at least two copies of the data from now on. One on Drobo and a copy on an external drive. This is the cheapest option for me, for now.
ReplyDelete@mawz: Thanks!
bewdy ... glad to hear it went well. I also have a policy (personal) of using something (like irfanview) to make 2048 x whatever sized jpg's of the files on yet another (usb) drive. This way if disaster occurs I have them to go back to which are at least good enough for small prints
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