Guest zirath Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 I did a backup of a drive and transferred it to cds (using hjsplit). One of the cds (the 1st in the set) turned out to be bad and the data is lost on it. The drive itself crashed recently (I just found out that the 1st backup disk is bad). Is there a way to get the data from the rest of the disks? Help appreciated.
Guest philo Posted October 21, 2008 Posted October 21, 2008 Re: backup utility problem "zirath" <zirath_m.x@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uwQNgm7MJHA.276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > I did a backup of a drive and transferred it to cds (using hjsplit). One of > the cds (the 1st in the set) turned out to be bad and the data is lost on > it. > > The drive itself crashed recently (I just found out that the 1st backup disk > is bad). > > Is there a way to get the data from the rest of the disks? > > Help appreciated. > > You might be able to retrieve the data on your first cd by using ISObuster http://www.isobuster.com/
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted October 22, 2008 Posted October 22, 2008 Re: backup utility problem "zirath" <zirath_m.x@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uwQNgm7MJHA.276@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I did a backup of a drive and transferred it to cds (using hjsplit). One of >the cds (the 1st in the set) turned out to be bad and the data is lost on >it. > > The drive itself crashed recently (I just found out that the 1st backup > disk is bad). > > Is there a way to get the data from the rest of the disks? > > Although I don't have an answer for your problem, there is an important lesson here for all those who keep backups of their system. It doesn't matter how aciduous you are at taking regular backups or how thourough your backup regime is, it is of no use whatsoever if you are unable to restore your backup because there is no mechanism to restore to an empty new disk; any part of the backup is unreadable or corrupted or the restored image will not run. The ability to restore the backup should be tested before undue reliance is placed on the backup system. Basically: the time to discover that your backup plan is flawed *is not* when you desparately need to restore it in anger following a disk failure.
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