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Hellkom being the wonderful Telkom koffie... :)

Where we have to pay for the data we use at roughly R60 per gig...
 
mine is 384k 5gb (down & upload), shaped
it must be because we are so spread out here (geographically)

look how small you area is, and look how close you are to those servers (they are hosted right there)

oh well
 
ldmelsa said:
look how small you area is, and look how close you are to those servers (they are hosted right there)
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Well, I'm pretty far from my exchange. I'm supposed to have 24mbit/s down, but I only get about 14mbit/s.

JungleDisc is just a service which manages your uploading and interface with the storage provide, which you can choose from Amazon US, Amazon EU, and Rackspace. I went with the latter (cheaper) which has their storage for this particular product hosted in Dallas. So if we had a distinction between local and international bandwidth, I would be burning my international gigs too :)
 
Your service is hosted in Dallas!!!? That's faaaar away! Sometimes I feel like our SA ISPs are lying to us. :(
 
That's what I was referring to too. Oh never mind. I guess it will come right, here in SA, but at the moment I can't backup my stuff like that.
 
Oh happy fscking days...

How I love having toys to play with sometimes...

I managed to get to the raw data stream from my crashed drive.. I think I might manage to "rescure" about 65% of my lost collection...
 
TB: If you're comfortable with linux, and if you have a big enough drive lying about, check out a tool named ddrescue. It has saved my behind a few times.
 
koffiejunkie...

I'm doing something along those lines :)...

The drive is in a SERIOUSLY cold environment and I am just sequentially reading the drive and dumping the raw data stream onto a new drive in an image.... and the parsing the image with a recovery tool.
 
ToxicBunny said:
The drive is in a SERIOUSLY cold environment and I am just sequentially reading the drive and dumping the raw data stream onto a new drive in an image.... and the parsing the image with a recovery tool.
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Ha ha! I used to stick them in the freezer for a bit - seems to help.

What kind of errors are you getting? Most drives fail because their circuitry fails. From the heating up and cooling off they develop dry joints. In those cases, getting an identical drive and swapping the circuit boards more often than not solves the problem.

Still, there's nothing like having multiple copies... :)
 
This has been a combo of that, and I think the drive was physically starting to fail... I'm getting CRC errors all over the place atm... but thankfully so far I seem to have only corrupted about 100photos..

The NTFS filesystem is COMPLETELY screwed tho.. the MFT is non-existant actually...
 
Ok... just shy of 65% of my lost stuff has been recovered succesfully.... Not bad going for a drive that was actually making some unpleasant noises...
 
koffiejunkie said:
+1

When my laptop got stolen along with my backup drive, that gave me a major fight. I now have a backup disc that stays home (mirror of my laptop's hard drive with SuperDuper!), one that goes on the road with me, a storage server at home, my photos get synced to my server, and my photos plus documents, etc, goes up to JungleDisk.
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ATM I've got the contents of my drive (copy 1), my time machine back up (copy 2) and then my Aperture vault (copy 3). The time machine backup and the vault are in two different buildings.

Obviously cloud storage isnt feasible here - I hate to think how expensive, and time consuming, it would be to backup my recently trimmed 165gb aperture vault. Time for a drobo I think.

Hope your recovery goes well ToxicBunny.
 
bwana said:
Obviously cloud storage isnt feasible here - I hate to think how expensive, and time consuming, it would be to backup my recently trimmed 165gb aperture vault. Time for a drobo I think.
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My JungleDisk upload wasn't fast - not sure where the bottleneck was. It took me about two weeks (night time when I'm home only) got get 90 odd GB up there.

From what I remember Telkom's upstream range from 128kbit/s to 512kbit/s, depending on which line you have. That's 56MB to 225MB per hour or 1.3GB to 5.4GB per day. With a 165GB library, I imagine that's enough to cope with your demands.

The cost problem remains. Even if you had a local service that you can burn a local account for, the service provider is still going to have to pay for bandwidth. The last time I hosted anything in S.A. the cheapest bandwidth we got was 5c per MB. That's R50 per GB. Prohibitively expensive for something like this.

That said, as soon as bandwidth costs drop to a point where this becomes feasible, I intend to offer something like this in S.A.
 
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