Re: From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-12 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Mike Bilow wrote: > > > Finally, CrashPlan is a cloud backup service that supports Linux clients > as well as Windows and MacOS clients. The software is free, allowing you > It also works & is supported on Solaris! > to back up one computer to your other compute

Re: From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-11 Thread Mike Bilow
It may have been helpful for you to know about SysRescueCD, a live Linux distribution optimized specifically for data recovery. It is based on Gentoo and is available as a simple ISO file that is intended to be burned to CD, although it can also be put onto a bootable USB stick. More informatio

From failed drive to hero in many steps

2012-12-10 Thread Mark Komarinski
This is going to be long and rambling, so tl;dr: Make sure you have backups. If you're like me, read on. Wife's hard drive in her netbook died last Thursday morning. Died bad. System would see the drive but wouldn't boot, neighbor tried to use a live CD, she even broke down and bought a one-