Bruce wrote:
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On Dec 4, 2005, at 7:25 PM, AB wrote:
Should I kiss years of personal archives and other stuff good-bye?
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The object of having a backup drive is having all that stuff in more than one
place at a time.
The moment you delete old stuff from your computer "because it's backed up on
the other drive" that other drive itself needs a backup. And yes, this means
you need to keep getting bigger and bigger drives, or move some stuff off to
optical disks (multiple copies, stored in different locations for the truly
cautious)
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... or does anyone think there's hope for me to resurrect this drive? I
don't own Disk Warrior for Tiger. Will that maybe save my @ss?
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I'd certainly give it a try. It really sounds like something DW can fix.
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So... the object of having a backup drive is having TWO backup drives. The
kicker is that I actually have a second brand new one that I MEANT to
initialize and duplicate much of the data. Just been working out of town so
much It's still sitting in a box. I wanted one that never travelled with me. My
iBook has only a 20 GB drive and I constantly need to clear space. I just
recently dumped a bunch of music, photos and downloads to the suddenly gone bad
drive.
I will upgrade or buy an new copy of Disk Warrior (3.0.3 I think is the latest)
and see what I can accomplish. One question:
To rebuild the directories, etc. on such a large drive won't I need to have
another large capacity space (like my new BU drive?)for the directory to be
rebuilt? I forget how that works. I'll be running DW from my iBook with the 20
GB.
Having it rebuilt on a possibly failing drive seems like a bad idea. Plus, I
think with all the data and four separate partitions this is going to take a
l-o-n-g time.
Thanks,
AB
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