[dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

[Gustav Brock]

Hi Jim

Yes, I have considered that as I use the standard Windows Server Backup on our servers, and it has an option for easy backup to Azure.
What holds this back, however, is our limited upload bandwidth of only a few Mbit/s which doesn't fit very well to the initial upload, neither to my video files of GB size.

When we get a 100/100 fiber connection, I will for sure use cloud backup.

/gustav

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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Gustav:

I like happy ending. :-)

Aside: Have you ever considered backing it up to the Cloud as I understand Microsoft gives unlimited room and being as their Cloud is using ZFS data loss is nearly impossible.

Jim

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:53:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Jim

That's what I did with Yodot: Copied the data file by file from the slow drive to a another physical drive.
So nothing more to do other than archiving the data from the good drive to a file server.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca>
Sendt: 6. oktober 2015 20:39
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Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi Gustav:

Excellent news. The question now is did all the data get recovered and how long will it take to move all the data off onto a new drive?

Jim

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From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 8:00:36 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] SpinRite or? Finished!

Hi all

My guess at about 140 days for this job (see below) was quite precise. That would have been ultimo September.

It finished today!

I had to break it into some steps with a day in between now and then, so it was quite close.

The malfunctioning drive is running steady but at an incredibly low transfer speed. It has no warranty any longer, so does anyone know if you can "reignite" a SATA drive? In the old days you could do a low level format of a hard drive but I guess the SATA interface prohibits that.

/gustav