[NPMUG] Follow-up, major data loss during 10.6 install

[Charles]

Data loss scares me greatly!   Question that's going to sound really  
basic-  besides time machine,  what are people doing to backup their  
data. Is there a better solution than time machine?

Thanks and have a safe long weekend;

Charles

  iPhone

On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Dave Sevick <dave at davesevick.com> wrote:

> So ....  "don't it always seem to go,  you don't know what you've  
> got till it's gone ...."
>
> My apologies to Joni Mitchell and other Ladies of the Canyon for  
> recycling the lyrics  .
>
> ===========
>
> The folks I saw Thursday and today have accidentally erased all  
> their data while install 10.6.  Several years of photos and music  
> and email and "who knows what else .." as I was not able to retrieve  
> anything.
>
> In the state of panic on Wednesday morning, they dug up their  
> Leopard 10.5.1 CD to do a "complete install"  over a failed 10.6  
> installation.
>
> I was not their on Wednesday to witness how it was done .... but  
> listening to the story  it seems that the Snow Leopard installer  
> failed once, failed a 2nd time and then they went back into old  
> boxes to find 10.5  installer DVDs to "go back to the way it was ..."
>
> I'm going to spare you the rest of the story ... but I can tell you  
> that loss of precious personal data, or financial data or even your  
> favorite songs that you have purchased on CDs or over iTunes can  
> really be heartbreaking.
>
> Disk Warrior saw no data I could recover.  And since new 10.5.1 data  
> was written over the failed 10.6 install, the likelihood of getting  
> Drive Savers to get anything back was slim and very expensive.
>
> Moving forward :
>
> 1. We installed 10.6 over the newly created 10.5.1 and began anew !
>
> 2. A blessing was cast upon us when they remembered that they had  
> photos and music on an iPod Touch !!!!!  We got 2375 songs back   
> back with Senuti ( $18 utility ) . That was a great moment amidst  
> all other bad news.   Photos did not transfer over ... the Apple  
> Store will look into this with them.
>
> 3.  Time Machine 1TB drive was installed !
>
> 4.  Office 2008 was installed and updated to 12.2.1
>
> 5. iLife '09 was installed an fully patched.
>
> 6.  Grief counseling and pep talk.
>
>
> btw ... we installed the 10.6 compatible Epson R320 drivers from epson.com 
>   .... they don't work !
>
> Researching the cause this weekend.
>
> I hope this story helps to educate and warn people ....
>
> Dave
>
>
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