ext2 Advice

[gaf at Blu.Org (Jerry Feldman)]

And the drive is better isolated from the PC power supply (but not toally). 
It's not fry proof. 
On 7 Nov 2002 at 13:45, Warren E. Agin wrote:

> I installed an external hard drive - and back up all the photos and other
> key data on a regular basis. Why external? So if there is a fire you can
> grab it going out the door.
> 
> -Warren Agin
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> From: "Derek Martin" <ddm at sophic.org>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:29 PM
> Subject: Re: ext2 Advice
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> > At some point hitherto, dsr at tao.merseine.nu hath spake thusly:
> > > The most valuable things missing are our honeymoon photos, about 500MB
> > > worth, but $5K would almost pay for another trip Down Under. Anyone
> > > have any bright cheery ideas?
> >
> > No, you're pretty much screwed.  Sorry to be the deliverer of
> > anti-cheer!  But this is why people always tell you if you have important
> > data that you'd be upset about losing, make a back-up of it.
> > Restoring from back-up is a lot cheaper than paying a data recovery
> > service...  unless of course you know someone who has the tools
> > (be they hardware, software, or brainware) and is willing to donate
> > their time to you.
> >
> > Assuming you've got any disposable cash (unlike many of us these
> > days), disk drives are cheap.  You could just mirror the disk.  For
> > most people, that's probably the easiest and cheapest way to go, once
> > you get past figuring out how to make a disk mirror.  But then, there
> > are nice how-tos that tell you exactly what to do...
> >
> > Good luck.  :)
> >
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