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rollcat on Sept 14, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Fa...

There's an infinite amount of ways you can lose data. Here's one of my recent stories: https://www.rollc.at/posts/2022-05-02-disaster-recovery/

Just among my "personal" stuff, over the last 12 years I've completely lost 4 hard drives due to age/physical failure. ZFS made it a no-deal twice, and aided with recovery once (once I've dd'd what was left of one drive, zvol snapshots made "risky" experimentation cheap&easy).

n3storm on Sept 19, 2024 [–]

Thanks for the link.

I just realised I wrote down "did" instead "dd" :D

I used photorec and other utilities with others disks, also FAT.

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