Dont trust cloud, plus the bandwidth here in the UK is still too slow for it.
OneDrive couldnt keep up with the PhotoRec file recover process, so my pc hard drive filled up and I had to abort recovering files to OneDrive, and thats when synching problems happen and OneDrive will swamp your CPU so it maxes out at 100% and you cant use the pc any more.
So I ended up having to recover to another 2TB external drive and manually delete the files from the web page interface of One Drive, kill the app on the pc and manually delete the One Drive recovered files stored locally because it was crashing the PC. Its still not ideal and its been a several years since I lasted tried to used OneDrive and the same problems still exist.
In future, I’ll be using batches of identical smaller drives, not giant drives, because if a hard drive fails, I can break them apart and swap heads and platters from one chassis to another.
I’ll also make the sectors sizes massive to avoid file fragmentation which will make file recovering more successful when partitions are damaged/erased. I think I’ll be investigating different file systems at this point as well because NTFS, exFat, FAT32 all have strengths and weaknesses when trying to recover files.
And then finding a good util which can search through tens of thousands of folders and millions of files to identify them automatically will be useful, but thats if I use the default photorec util to recover files. I’m looking at the options to specifically add clarion files to the file types to see if it can recover them more easily because the clarion .exp file is sometimes recognised as a .java file and a .c file. Template files are recognised as txt files and .c files with some loss of the first few chars in a file. Havent found any .clw’s yet, or .app, .dct, .bpp, .dct, .inc and other clarion specific files yet.
Had a conversation a few weeks ago with someone who used to work with HP here in the UK ironically on the Tape Drive Backups when the US arm didnt want to work on it.
He seemed confident that tape drives will make a come back, which is the irony of my situation, but tape drives get dirty, tape wears out as it runs over the head, just look at how music cassettes used to mess up with repeated use even in high end hifi or professional tape units.
Hard drive arms/heads dont touch the platters so they are more robust than tape imo and components are easily interchangable when parts like heads and motors fail, if a batch of identical drives are purchased at a time.
Plus having batches of smaller hard drives makes it hard to wipe data when hacked or inexperienced do risky ops, or something else goes awry.
However, I’m just glad I didnt use bitlocker to encrypt the backup drives as it would definately be Game Over!
