On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:10:59 +0000, Jim Jackson wrote:

> On 2021-02-02, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
>> On 02/02/2021 15:01, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> alister  writes:
>>>> Glad to see in the thread that you have located & recovered your
>>>> files
>>>>
>>>> as a side topic another good recovery tool is photorec
>>>
>>> Better still, keep backups.
>>>
>>> (The thread is puzzlingly titled. If they are backup files then
>>> instead of trying to recover them, why not just make a new backup?)
>>>
>>>
>> Pedant.
>>
>>
> Richard was not on his own, I thought the same thing! But I was glad
> things turned out ok.
>
> A few years ago I lost backup files when my backup disk died. New disk -
> new backup and no problem.

I assume you now always run fsck on the backup disk after the backup and
that you use a cycle of at least two disks for each set of data that you
back up.



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