Dealing with loss

how it happened is somewhat of a mystery, and its not important. but i've lost nearly all of my data. except for some carefully backed-up personal files and passwords, ive lost about 6 years of anime, movies, music, books, sheet music and photos. and my porn: over 30000 images. all because i was lazy. i have a hard-drive in the mail coming in a few days. i feel sick. has this happened to you?

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I AM SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. ;_;

Nope. Google Drive + Time Machine.
It appears you only lost stuff you can download again?

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i'm still piecing what i do have backed-up (and encrypted) on a throwaway google drive. there's definitely some personal photos that i will never get back.
it's just the strenuous pain in the ass that finding everything again will be that upsets me. but there's kind of a good feeling in starting over...i just wish i had more control over when that could happen. backups will be more strict from now own.

this happened to be, long before google drive. HD attached to my amiga failed, and i lost everything except one floppy's worth of documents. three novels in development, gone, like that.

it was a weird experience. HD recovery experts only worked with windows or apple back then, and they charged tens of thousands of dollars. the only catharsis i got was when an associate very helpfully used a portable oxy cutter to cut the drive in half.

somehow that helped.

If you can mount the hard drive/s you can recover the data.

I'm sorry about your loss - that gut wrenching feeling in the pit of your stomach is awful.

If you lost it all from hardware failure, consider going to a data recovery firm if there's stuff on there you really cannot afford to lose, like photos - it's not that expensive

ah...yeah...
in my country there's files on my computer that "may" void any data recovery company's confidentiality policy. btw fuck canada.
it seems to be tied to motherboard failure. all hope is not lost but as it stands i could not mount the drive. decided to walk away from it and revisit it when i have proper functioning hardware before i wasted the better half of day.

die pedo

its really mundane. hint its legal in the us

i read that like you would read torpedo

that isnt blood...is the fish just squirting out roe?

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Who backs up random fucking media. Unless they are personal fotos or are rare for some reason, there are literally thousands of copies in existence already.

Happened a few times, but only with system drives. Long ago, everything disapperead from my 40GB Maxtor from one day to the other. The drive worked, but the partition was missing.
In recent years, I only had 2 SSDs crap themselves, but since dual-booting I don't really keep important stuff there.

tfw you realize most of your life has been wasted flipping ones and zeros that aren't even real

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>has this happened to you?
No. But I deliberately wiped my entire digital life 4 times in the past.
Gigabytes of music, movies, programming projects, websites I've made.
Don't want to be alive.

So... 2d loli?

Haven't had catastrophic data loss like that yet. I was certainly at risk for a long time, but now I have my main online storage on RAID6 and also have offline backups which I update at least monthly (there's not much change) or whenever I feel like it's necessary. I hope this will keep me reasonably safe.

Before you rebuild your hoard from scratch, as you start, pick out the truly rare content and delete the rest. Follow the good old 321 principle for your important data and regularly cull trash.
It's the only way I got my important data singled out and backed up like it should be and actually got rid of shit i was just hoarding and never would go through.

I have a hard drive that sometimes doesn't show up at all, and sometimes works perfectly (for now). I have no backups. I don't think I would have any right to care if it died permanently

That said, an index would be nice, to re-download stuff that can be downloaded. What's a good way to generate one?

Absolutely. I want my local collection to be better curated.
Never knew what 3-2-1 was but as it turns out that I had been doing that for quite a while, but just not with all of my files. My "3" will have to be local but cold from now on.
an index is what I wish I had
Yes, but its just something that's on there...not a crutch for something else within me.

Cold storage is good.
Maybe consider a vps as a multipurpose off site storage solution. I got an 8TB slot pretty cheap and use it as one of my off site backups for critical data.