2009-10-06, 07:58
Today started off as a good day. I got invited to a microsoft IT conference today for windows 7, and one of the take aways was a free copy of 7 ultimate....Highlight of my day.
Later, I get home, and I'm using Ember Media manager to delete a movie from my library, and think all is good. Then i notice my mapped drive in windows is showing 1.6TB free on my movie drive, instead of the 690GB that it was at before....go to investigate, and lo-and-behold....all my movies are gone...all 174 of them. I tried a few undelete utilities (Drive is a 4x 1TB RAID0 NAS array) and nothing worked. so I'm back to downloading everything again. Fortunately I have about 50 some odd movies on my mothers HTPC and elsewhere on my machines, but I'll have to retrieve about 120 more that I don't have. DEFINITELY not the highlight of my day.
Moral of the story, either backup, or BE CAREFUL....or you could loose 900GB of data in about 10 seconds, just like I did. That and not everything that happens to you is going to be good
Later, I get home, and I'm using Ember Media manager to delete a movie from my library, and think all is good. Then i notice my mapped drive in windows is showing 1.6TB free on my movie drive, instead of the 690GB that it was at before....go to investigate, and lo-and-behold....all my movies are gone...all 174 of them. I tried a few undelete utilities (Drive is a 4x 1TB RAID0 NAS array) and nothing worked. so I'm back to downloading everything again. Fortunately I have about 50 some odd movies on my mothers HTPC and elsewhere on my machines, but I'll have to retrieve about 120 more that I don't have. DEFINITELY not the highlight of my day.
Moral of the story, either backup, or BE CAREFUL....or you could loose 900GB of data in about 10 seconds, just like I did. That and not everything that happens to you is going to be good