Today at work I crapped a brick.
There was a young woman in who had requested a backup of the data on her laptop in preparation for transfer to a new laptop. I copied the usual folders, and formatted the old hard drive as I usually do to prevent such things as identity theft and whatnot.
She came in to talk to me, and asked if all the pictures of her recently deceased mother had been backed up, since those were the only files important to her father and her. Feeling a small twinge in the back of my neck, I assured her that all the files I could recover had been backed up.
As soon as she left, I quickly made my way to the tech room where I looked through the backup for appropriately sized JPGs. There were none, which meant that the very very important pictures which needed to be there, were not.
After a few minutes of freaking out, I started looking for a solution to my problem. I knew files were recoverable after a format, but I didn’t have the software. At first I could not find the software, and I shat a brick.
After calming down again, I searched a bit harder, and found the solution to my problem.
The deep scan had been running for 48 hours when I left it for the weekend. I can only hope all those pictures are there when I get back to work on monday.
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