I'm not sure what you mean here but I'll answer what I think you asked.

I'm always prepared to quickly recover ALL data on my personal computer. As described above, all of my data is seperated, duplicated and backed up in various ways. - If I have a physical hard drive failure, my duplicate drive simply takes over the responsibilities until I replace the bad drive. No down time with that one.
- If I have a software failure on my OS due to virus or other random OS error, This usually will not harm my non-OS data such as photos, music, etc. This just requires me to reinstall the OS or copy a clean backup to that partition. Either way, back up and running in about an hour but some software may need to be reinstalled.
- If I lost all data on the entire disk (3 partitions) due to virus, accidental reformat, major OS error, stupidity, etc. I can reinstall the OS and then restore all of the data from my most recent data backup. Should be back up and running in less than a day.
- Multiple problems where there is data loss not only on the hard drives but on the back ups as well. I can use a data recovory tool such as the one described above to find MOST of the lost data from the hard drive. I the very unlikely event that you have this type of problem, getting MOST of your data back is probably good enough for you but there may still be good data on older back ups or even the corrupt back up to fill in nearly all of the holes left by the recovery tool. Could take a few days to get things working again depending on how long it takes to identify the problems etc...

Now, I keep a copy of most of my website on my hard drive as well just in case but I have never experienced a data loss on a server due to the built in protection most come with as well as the frequency of data back ups done on servers. In fact, most servers use a data loss prevention system similar to the one I've described. And most also employ a similar technique to recover data.

As far as wondering how safe this site is, in my opinion it is very safe. Like I said, I have never lost data here. The servers are well maintained and administered well. Please keep in mind that this is a free hosting service here so they aren't earning any income based on the hosting accounts so no guarantees will be made about the safety of your data.

Hope this helps.

vujsa

this information will be of great help, thanx for sharing it.

Personally before I've lost huge amount of data due to my carelesness, and now I've learned to be extra careful and take preventive measures.

That is a good guide for people who do not know about that approach to installing the operating system and keeping their personal files in a safe area. That is the method I do too. I used to also place the PageFile on the 2nd partition, but I have that it is not a good idea -- only place page file elsewhere if you have a second hard disk to place it on. I keep my c:\ at ~6GB, so whenever I need to reinstall I only need ~20 minutes.

Nice tips vujsa!!!

Last week somebody in the office formatted my HD using Micro$oft fdisc. I recovered my partitions using TestDisk, is a wonderful tool.

My comments:

Rapco, NTFS is much better that the old miss functional FAT32. Is good for large partitions, and file security. The same in Linux, Ext3 is the best Filesystem for Linux. I don't agree to recommend FAT32 "only" because "is better" for restore data. To keep back-ups and replication is a good practice.


Trojan, i seems that you have only a "C:" a one HD. A safest way is to use a live-cd, boot it, resize and create new partitions, reboot, format and enjoy. Get a Gui for parted in a booteable CD.

Linux allows Software RAID. 3 years ago I installed a Linux with a Raid 1(2 80GB HD Quantum+Samsung). Ask google

Blessings!

yes exactly. i follow most of these practices to make recovery of data streamlined. first of two partitions like described above. one thing that i do different is i have a personalized version of nlite and its set to install unattended so i can go eat meanwhile. second off once i have a fresh install of windows i install all my programs and adjust most of the programs settings to my prefrerences. then i use acronis back suite to make an image of my C drive. that way if i need ot install windows again i simply go from the image and not anything else.

oh and ntfs is definitely better. first of fat32 can't handle any single file being bigger than 4gb. some movies and files pass that. ie iso rips, so on. also when you soemtimes have to manually shut off your computer sometimes the fat32 table can become corrupt and thus you get those pieces and parts. i've read an article somewhere and i dont remember where, but it clearly stated that NTFS was built to withstand file system corruptions like from that type of scenario. and over the years i've never lost a filesystem as ntfs.

however the only good thing now that fat32 is used for is a common drive between linux and windows. this is because both natively can read AND write to them. although it seems linux is able to write to NTFS now. however fat32 is a sure fire file system for two OS's.