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Post by peterfitzpatrick on Nov 23, 2018 19:07:42 GMT
I've recorded every single TOTP since BBC4 started repeating them. All of the shows and specials. Converted from freesat and catalogued using TVDB episode numbers... all setup in plex.
An electrician turned off a circuit breaker while doing some work today but didn't tell me/ask me beforehand so I was unable to power down my computer.
As you can probably guess.... I've lost each and every one of them. To say I'm gutted doesn't come close. I had put them all onto a 4TB drive and only the TOTP folder was lost. Trying desperately to recover the files but it's not looking good. I have almost everything else in the cloud on dropbox/google/hubic but this was just too large.
Send sympathy :-(
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Post by darrenlee on Nov 23, 2018 19:15:58 GMT
Have you tried using Recuva, enabling 'deep scan' if necessary?
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Post by peterfitzpatrick on Nov 23, 2018 19:37:42 GMT
Have you tried using Recuva, enabling 'deep scan' if necessary? I’m running it now. Keeping my fingers crossed. Nothing has been touched on the drive so hopefully the data is still there and can be recovered.
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Post by RWels on Nov 23, 2018 20:39:10 GMT
It's a bit odd, just a folder getting lost for a thing like that. Does the free space computer or is that impossible to tell?
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Post by garygraham on Nov 24, 2018 8:07:53 GMT
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Post by tonyrees on Nov 24, 2018 16:03:33 GMT
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Post by peterfitzpatrick on Nov 24, 2018 16:05:58 GMT
Oh my word !!!! Thank you ! I'm running Easus now. It has been running overnigh and has found a lot of files but so far none of the filenames make sense. It has at least another 11 hours to go so I'll leave it going
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Post by Dale Rumbold on Nov 24, 2018 19:42:44 GMT
Bad luck, sir. Having worked in I.T. from 1980 till 2004, on many different platforms, I've always been aware that any form of media can get lost / corrupted, so my own personal 'archive' of old TV shows, converted in a similar method to the above (I'm guessing) is backed up on to another mega-drive, just in case ; that said, as someone else pointed out to me, both drives are in my house so if it burns down I lose them both! (I also have 3rd copies of some of them on my laptop, but I'd need to make sure I saved that first, rather than the wife ...)
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Post by RWels on Nov 24, 2018 23:52:28 GMT
Bad luck, sir. Having worked in I.T. from 1980 till 2004, on many different platforms, I've always been aware that any form of media can get lost / corrupted, so my own personal 'archive' of old TV shows, converted in a similar method to the above (I'm guessing) is backed up on to another mega-drive, just in case ; that said, as someone else pointed out to me, both drives are in my house so if it burns down I lose them both! (I also have 3rd copies of some of them on my laptop, but I'd need to make sure I saved that first, rather than the wife ...) You don't have a back-up wife then?
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Post by peterfitzpatrick on Jan 1, 2019 17:59:26 GMT
Although most of my (non-work) content is stored in the cloud I hadn't got around to putting my TOTP collection up there. So I bit the bullet and setup a 2TB cloud solution and after using Easus I was able to recover 100% of my TOTP collection and am now working through all of the other missing files to rebuild. Everything in the cloud now. The link above was great because it filled in a few gaps in my collection.
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Post by Simon Collis on Jan 5, 2019 15:31:14 GMT
I bought a TerraMaster NAS box. Supports time machine, it’s 12TB, can cope with power outs and a disk failure. Expensive but cheaper than 12TB of cloud storage...
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Post by Stephen Byers on Jan 7, 2019 4:01:19 GMT
I bought a TerraMaster NAS box. Supports time machine, it’s 12TB, can cope with power outs and a disk failure. Expensive but cheaper than 12TB of cloud storage... Does this have RAID? And if 12Tb how many discs are inside? Also where did you get it? I asked about NAS boxes in PC World (Kingston) some months ago and the guy in the Business section hadn't a clue what I was on about. Thanks.
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Post by Simon Collis on Jan 7, 2019 9:02:32 GMT
Does this have RAID? And if 12Tb how many discs are inside? Also where did you get it? I asked about NAS boxes in PC World (Kingston) some months ago and the guy in the Business section hadn't a clue what I was on about. Thanks. 4 discs - it’s RAID so they’re 4 x 4TB. I got it from Amazon. It’s a bit noisy but works well.
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Post by RWels on Jan 7, 2019 11:08:12 GMT
I bought a TerraMaster NAS box. Supports time machine, it’s 12TB, can cope with power outs and a disk failure. Expensive but cheaper than 12TB of cloud storage... 4 discs - it’s RAID so they’re 4 x 4TB. I got it from Amazon. It’s a bit noisy but works well. That must be RAID4, then? More expensive at the start, but you only sacrifice 25% of disc space to redundancy.
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Post by Simon Collis on Jan 7, 2019 11:24:44 GMT
That must be RAID4, then? More expensive at the start, but you only sacrifice 25% of disc space to redundancy. It is. Been too long in the IT business to feel safe with much else. (Except maybe a mirrored pair, but I’m not running high performance databases on it)
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