[OT] Data recovery services, recommend one?

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008, Michael Hipp wrote:
>
>Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>>On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com 
>><mailto:Michael at hipp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Any of you folk used any of the available data recovery services?
>>    Can one recommend one that does great work for mere peanuts?
>>
>>    Linux.
>>
>>    Michael
>>
>>I had great results with DriveSavers, but it cost a LOT of  peanuts.
>>A drive full of XFS filesystems had completely failed.  All data were
>>recovered, and returned to me on a LaCie quadra drive (USB, Firewire
>>and SATA interfaces).  Neat.
>>
>>Cost around $2500 US.
>
>Whoa there dude! You're talking to the church mouse here.

Never time to do it right, always time to do it over.

I had a customer that paid me several thousand dollars to recover and
rebuild their system after a power failure -- after ignoring my
recommendations to buy a UPS.  Did they buy a UPS after this?  No!

BTW:  That was 20 years ago, and our fiat currency has devalued
considerably since then.

Bill
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