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My data, my precious data… is gone.
Overview
This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.
Even though there were numerous other factors in play, I take full responsibility for what happened.
I have written this article hoping that it could save someone else from the same situation. No one should ever experience the loss of his/her data.
7 days and 10 hours ago:
Alrighty, It’s time for the offline backup routine again.
When it comes to backing up the full OS, I don’t believe in online backup solutions. This is specially true when I’m dealing with Windows servers. These kinda backups should serve as a disaster recovery solution and I’m not taking any chances.
So I always take them offline, outside of the OS, using a third party program to boot up the servers.
For years I have been using Paragon Software. Their products are great, reliable and I have nothing bad to say about them.
This time however, I thought maybe it’s time to ditch commercial softwares and use the solid ntfs-3g suite instead. Back when I started using Paragon, I didn’t even know what Linux was, Continue reading