I had my final discussion with DriveSavers today. The data they retrieved is on its way home, over 99%. If they were as successful as they claim, then Picayune should be back to its original up-and-running state over the upcoming weekend. Either way, I’m out $1700.
A tech on Friday afternoon almost gave me a heart attack when he started listing what data he did see. I had to insist he had the wrong drive because there’s nobody on my server named Lily. We agreed on the size but not the vendor. Good thing I was correct. The guy called back to apologize and say he had the wrong one yet the key areas remained pretty damaged.
Anyway, I hope to get everything back into place as per the successful experiments I executed last week. First, I will try an outright restoration from the hard drive I sent them right after I make a copy of it. Should it fail which Jeremy thinks it will, then I will go with the rsync tricks I was pleased with.
I want to thank any who bothered to stop by. I have compiled a spreadsheet of stories I missed out on during the down time, practically a month! Will I write them? Yes, I think I will. I sincerely enjoy doing this despite the tiny, insignificant amount of responses I receive. According to my last count, it’s about 30 stories, reviews and photos.
Fingers crossed everybody as this could put everything back on track to a million words and 500 comments.