Anyone also experience mild PTSD when having to prune old cloud resources?

Happens with the best of us. I tend to back up everything rather before deleting. I know it is sometimes not plausible but rather safe than sorry.

I once deleted a personal instance that should not have been deleted. No backup, so now I double and triple check and back up.
 
Honestly zero issues with deleting cloud resources.

This involves having a solid strategy for backups/disaster recovery.

With backups across multiple cloud providers, if I accidentally take down prod, customers will complain and as quick as I can boot up some. VMs and update cloudflare, the customers will be up and running again
 
Willie Trombone said:
For me the worst mistake I ever made was formatting a clients PC after backing everything up but missed one old DOS app that he used to record his rainfall data for the past 15 years on his farm…
I still cringe today.
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You'd think he'd have made it crystal clear that there's a critical DOS app on board... If he didn't, not sure I'd have let it get under my skin too much.

I once lost thousands of iTunes song ratings and other library data because I had no idea Apple didn't keep the .xml up to date on Windows. If you wanted the latest data, needed to be a fresh export from within the app. I feel much better about this though after hearing about you losing 15 years of rainfall data.
 
Always freak out when deleting stuff.

Somewhat related... but when you get a request to decommission a large company that's gone into liquidation. Run a Powershell script to remove licenses, watch it run through all the user accounts and wonder what all those people are doing for a job now. Kinda sad that.
 
Not a cloud resource but the other night I connected my old SSD, one that I removed from my desktop, to my Mibox and decided to move my internal storage to it.

I have 2 other hdd's connected to the same USB hub than the newly added SSD was connected.

I went through the process to format the drive so it can be linked to the internal storage... Today I realized that I selected the wrong drive. Instead of selecting the 120GB SSD, I selected the 3TB hard drive that contains my movies and series collections dating back to 2013. :crying:o_O

I am now waiting for the data recovery software to finish scanning the drive in the hopes that it can be recovered. Last time I did a recovery of a drive, most of the files were corrupted. The last drive contained software that I could easily get again... This time it is not so easy as most of the content is very very old.
 
IamNoone said:
Not a cloud resource but the other night I connected my old SSD, one that I removed from my desktop, to my Mibox and decided to move my internal storage to it.

I have 2 other hdd's connected to the same USB hub than the newly added SSD was connected.

I went through the process to format the drive so it can be linked to the internal storage... Today I realized that I selected the wrong drive. Instead of selecting the 120GB SSD, I selected the 3TB hard drive that contains my movies and series collections dating back to 2013. :crying:o_O

I am now waiting for the data recovery software to finish scanning the drive in the hopes that it can be recovered. Last time I did a recovery of a drive, most of the files were corrupted. The last drive contained software that I could easily get again... This time it is not so easy as most of the content is very very old.
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As long as you didn't overwrite anything most should be recoverable if the 3TB isn't an ssd.
But why no backups, that's like juggling knives, a hdd can randomly fail at anytime?
 
Willie Trombone said:
Movies and series… the internet is just one big HDD ;)
But yeh… quicker to recover. Which software are you using? Just don’t recover to the same drive lol.
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EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Technician

Why not to the same drive? There is nothing wrong with the drive it's on, or am I missing something?
 
airborne said:
As long as you didn't overwrite anything most should be recoverable if the 3TB isn't an ssd.
But why no backups, that's like juggling knives, a hdd can randomly fail at anytime?
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I have never had any issues with it all these years, the other 4TB drive I use has a backup, it seems like it's on its way out as it keeps connecting/disconnecting when connected to the computer, but not the Mibox. But I get what you say. I will have to get a drive to back it up to, it's a externally powered hard drive, I think that is why it is lasted so long, it's not regularly used to load new data.
 
Almost 8TB data recovered from a 3TB drive.

Its going to be a while to filter through this all. :cautious:

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Turns out the files labeled "Lost File Name" are the actual working files.

Have to check them one by one to find the correct files I want to restore.
 
IamNoone said:
Not a cloud resource but the other night I connected my old SSD, one that I removed from my desktop, to my Mibox and decided to move my internal storage to it.

I have 2 other hdd's connected to the same USB hub than the newly added SSD was connected.

I went through the process to format the drive so it can be linked to the internal storage... Today I realized that I selected the wrong drive. Instead of selecting the 120GB SSD, I selected the 3TB hard drive that contains my movies and series collections dating back to 2013. :crying:o_O

I am now waiting for the data recovery software to finish scanning the drive in the hopes that it can be recovered. Last time I did a recovery of a drive, most of the files were corrupted. The last drive contained software that I could easily get again... This time it is not so easy as most of the content is very very old.
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Ouch, my condolences.

A few years back, I decided that I wanted to have as much of the stuff I care about in the cloud. In the end I settled on Mega, as their 8TB subscription (billed via iOS) is extremely reasonable. Moved all my external HDDs - dating back to high school - to the cloud, and lightened up my Dropbox too by archiving old client files off to Mega.

The small monthly fee is well worth the peace of mind imo. Now it's all safe, accessible any time on any device, and I don't have to worry about hardware failure, theft or fire. Every now and again I'll take an hour or two to prune the Mega files, as it's probably mostly stuff I no longer care about or can easily stream. But that will take ages and I can now take all the time I want.
 
Bryn said:
Ouch, my condolences.

A few years back, I decided that I wanted to have as much of the stuff I care about in the cloud. In the end I settled on Mega, as their 8TB subscription (billed via iOS) is extremely reasonable. Moved all my external HDDs - dating back to high school - to the cloud, and lightened up my Dropbox too by archiving old client files off to Mega.

The small monthly fee is well worth the peace of mind imo. Now it's all safe, accessible any time on any device, and I don't have to worry about hardware failure, theft or fire. Every now and again I'll take an hour or two to prune the Mega files, as it's probably mostly stuff I no longer care about or can easily stream. But that will take ages and I can now take all the time I want.
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Most of the movies I have replaced with fresh downloads. The very old stuff is in the miriade of "Lost File Name" I will sort through tomorrow.

What I am glad about is recovering my Garth Brooks "The Entertainer" box set! It can't be found to download again.

I will in time take the plunge and buy it from Amazon, but what would I do with it? I have no devices in my home that has the ability to accept such old technologies.
 
Bryn said:
Ouch, my condolences.

A few years back, I decided that I wanted to have as much of the stuff I care about in the cloud. In the end I settled on Mega, as their 8TB subscription (billed via iOS) is extremely reasonable. Moved all my external HDDs - dating back to high school - to the cloud, and lightened up my Dropbox too by archiving old client files off to Mega.

The small monthly fee is well worth the peace of mind imo. Now it's all safe, accessible any time on any device, and I don't have to worry about hardware failure, theft or fire. Every now and again I'll take an hour or two to prune the Mega files, as it's probably mostly stuff I no longer care about or can easily stream. But that will take ages and I can now take all the time I want.
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No duplication though, you are trusting Mega not to glitch or randomly ban your account for some arcane reason?
 
airborne said:
No duplication though, you are trusting Mega not to glitch or randomly ban your account for some arcane reason?
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When you refer to Mega, are you referring to megaupload.com or something like that? I thought megaupload was closed down years ago due to piracy or the likes.
 
airborne said:
No duplication though, you are trusting Mega not to glitch or randomly ban your account for some arcane reason?
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Mega is extremely popular. Wouldn’t expect random glitches or arbitrary bans, not unless you’re using it like MegaUpload or something. The quality of their platform is excellent.

IamNoone said:
When you refer to Mega, are you referring to megaupload.com or something like that? I thought megaupload was closed down years ago due to piracy or the likes.
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Mega has roots along that line but it split from or was an offshoot from all that Kim Dotcom bs. It’s just Mega. Mega.io.
 
I have been using OwnCloud on my hosting account to backup my photo's and documents from my phone and computer.

I learned the hard way with Dropbox because my important certificates somehow were corrupted when I tried to access them recently.
 
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