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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Yea...so we pretty much lost every project done here at MAKE in the last year today
The only remnants left of all of our projects are the compressed video files that are on our (MAKE's and my) websites.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Oh....and for some reason I decided to backup all of my "kid" files last week onto a local harddisk.
So I still have everything related to that character....but he's sort of just a drop in the bucket at this point
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Aden 622 posts
Omg, damn!!! that damn sucks, what you going to do if a client requires somthing changing? Redo them all?
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Pretty much
Quite literally, ALL of our files are totally gone....so there's not much else we would be able to do.
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Aden 622 posts
damn, you could pick some random person and blame them, haha it will help to relieve your pain (btw i think cammy was tampering with your line
hint )
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Lol...it wasn't a hacker or virus or anything....the drives simply failed (2 drives in our array).
Due to the fact that we're using a RAID array....if more than 1 drive fails you're basically screwed (as I understand it).
If only 1 drive fails though....then there's not a problem since a RAID array works as a redundant backup system as well. Sadly, we weren't so fortunate.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
Basically we're talking about 800 Gigs of data down the drain.
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
I guess this is a good time for a pirate to say, "ARGGGG!"
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ptaverner 379 posts
That really sucks Tyson. Have you guys contacted a recovery service yet to see if they can help?
Good news is that you have rendered animations.
Chin up man, it's not the end of the world.
Peter
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BColbourn 2,323 posts
wow damn. how did this happen?
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Franklyn 553 posts
a good idea would be to look up a good company that specialises in data recovery as peter sugested and maybe use magnetic tapes for backup next time.
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Franklyn 553 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
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ptaverner 379 posts
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
By the way...to sort of clarify.....
None of the data has been erased per se, it's simply not at all accessible due to how a RAID array works.
An array like the one we have splits up the data into 3 separate drives and then has a 4th drive which logs which data went to which computer. That way, if one of the first 3 computers goes down...then the 4th one still has a record of the data...and/or, if the 4th computer goes down...then all of the data is still on the first 3 drives.
BUT....if one of the 1st 3 drives goes down AND the 4th one goes down...then there's no way to tell which data goes where. It's like sticking all of the data through a paper shredder.
So....if by some magical means we're able to get 1 of the 2 broken drives working again (which currently doesn't look too good) then in theory everything should be fine....however, as you can see in my above post...that can be a bit...hmmm...."expensive".
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ivanisavich 4,196 posts
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ant- 73 posts
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iest_rob 1,671 posts
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terry 37 posts
Depending on which level of RAID you are using there is hope. From what you said though, since you have one drive for parity information then you're not going to have a lot of luck if the drives are not spinning up.
My suggestion (have an exam on the morning on disaster recovery co-incidentaly) is to used another backup location. RAID arrays are good for if a single drive fails, which it was designed for, it keeps on going but as soon as you lose more than one drive the parity information (backup information) is not complete enough to rebuild a drive. That's why when you have critical data you should always back up to at least one external source.
Ideally this would be redudant tape backups. But I'm sure you have a computer person on staff that handle all that.
But looking on the bright side, if your drives are still spinning up there is a very good chance you can recover almost all data. There are many possibilities for drives not responding such as partition table data becoming corrupt or bad sectors being read at the wrong time. If you're drive are still spinning up I would suggest investing in some recovery software to run on the disks to see if a simple recovery is possible on even one disk. If you can get the data from one disk and throw it back into the array you will be able to recover all data.
Good luck and I feel for you, I've lost 100gb of personal data once because of a hard drive dieing and I can tell you it wasn't a fun experience.
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Global 1,589 posts
That's just terrible! Sorry to hear that bud. We are just about to instal a new server at work with something like 9 terrabyte storage but I haven't heard anyone talk of backup methods as yet. I think I will start the ball rolling on that one today!
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Todd 84 posts
Ah Ty that totally sucks man!
i know it's not to the same scale but i know exactly how you feel! Even backups fail!
Once again im sorry for your loss....whens the funeral?
~Todd.
