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Hi all, I was getting messages about an impending disk failure lately, so I decided to swap the offending disk and also go for a higher disk capacity (I had 4 TB, the new disk is 6 TB). I intende...
It's generally a good idea to CLONE a HDD before you start screwing with it tryijng to get your data back if at all possible.
On the other hand doing a bit by bit backup on a failing HDD could just cause it to fail sooner. Using SpinRite on a Clone I don't see it fixing anything. Then again depending on the size of the HDD, it could take quite some time to do it's thing. So we're back to the Clone and then putting that aside, running something like SpinRite on the Orignal HDD, allowing it to do it's thing and fix the issues with the Data, and once that's done get everything copied off of it as it's a HDD going bad. You don't want to fix your Data and then keep using that HDD.
Always better just to have a Backup to begin with and not have to go through all this other garbage. That's why I and others keep saying BACKUP. A NAS is not a BACKUP. Not unless you're backing up to another NAS like I am using rsync. I know it can be such a hassle. It costs money. A large percentage of people just don't bother. Then the HDD starts failing and they start complaining. You sure as hell don't want to get your HDD Data recovered from one of them HDD repair services as that's quite costly.
If you want ot at least make sure your Documents, and pictures and a few things like that are backed up and off site, then using something like Carbonite, where it's cheap, and automatic enough where you don't have to worry may be all you need. If you have to backup 13TB's of Data like I do, the Cloud is not pratical at all. Besides being very costly, I have a 1TB CAP from Comcast. Though I guess I could pay another $50 a month for Unlimited which I had before, at some point Comcast would cut me off anyway and Upload speed is a fraction of Download speed anyway. So it's using External HDD's plugged into the USB port to backup. Which is a hassle!!! Or another NAS and using rsync so it's automatic. That's another NAS and more HDD's, etc. I'm doing a combo of both.
Figure out what backup solution works best for you with the amount of Data you have. Then you don't have to resort to Cloning or SpinRite or any other more drastic measures.
This is what I ended up doing. It worked for the most part, the disc succumbed before I could save everything but I have all I need.
That's great that you were able to get the most important stuff you needed from it. You lucked out. I've losts some pictures in the past I wish I still had. Which is why I'm all for backing up. backing up Multi-places. Pictures for example you can get back-up to another of places on the cloud for FREE, Google being one of them. These days when I take a picture on my iPhone, they're getting backed up to a few different places. I'll never lose a picture ever again. I'm learning from my own past mistakes.
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