Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: đđđ Saturday, November 16, 2024
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨days⊠agolol thatâs all Greek to me but thanks, Iâve made a note to try and figure it out.
Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy to backup properly, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed up music collection to someone else I didnât stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.
I still have some I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff.
But some have viruses so it might be risky needing a special approach. And I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password (at least while in the computer) which I donât want to do on a compromised device.
Idk thatâs not urgent. I think for now Iâll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.
indisin@aussie.zone â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
Cheers, didnât really get taught any of this. Haha no pr0n! Just past lack of education about net safety or didnât shell out for good AV, or maybe forgot regular updates.
Most are various laptop drives within the 15 year old range. I forget what connections.
Fingers crossed thatâs itâs not the heads because thatâs actual physical damage I think.
Spare pc is a possibility, I just would have to back up and wipe an old laptop and Iâm kind of struggling with day to day chores as is. Also it feels like wasting a pc by exposing a safe one if that makes sense?
I could buy a raspberry pi as theyâre cheap but I donât know if I have the brain cells for the learning curve rn.
It should be ok. I just need to back up social media pics locally first, then grab the stuff from other cloud storage, and then back the computer/s up. (And try to grab contact info of establish an outside connection in case social media requires ID in like a year.) The drives are sitting there and hopefully wonât get damaged or lost before I can get to them.
indisin@aussie.zone â¨1⊠â¨day⊠ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨22⊠â¨hours⊠ago
Thanks! Yeah it was very likely clicking a bad link and Iâll be more careful. I probably wonât need the NAS setup and could do it manually