Re: Disk repair utilities?
- From: Guenther Fischer <never@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:15:22 +0200
In article <jollyroger-1D1196.12564401092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <010920081952170018%never@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Guenther Fischer <never@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <jollyroger-8D68EA.12090201092008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article
<aderamey.addw-AEE10D.14051731082008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
The World Wide Wade <aderamey.addw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So ... I'm kind of stuck and wondering if anyone has any
recommendations. Perhaps more powerful disk utilities? I read a little
about AppleJack, don't know if it's any good for my problem. Maybe
Disk Warrior?
I know this won't help you out of your current jam; but I have to say if
you spent as much time and effort in securing a good backup solution,
you wouldn't b in the situation you're in right now, because you could
just reformat the disk and restore the data from backup. To me,
investing in a solid backup solution is far more important than
investing in tools to recover data from damaged media or directories!
Question is not doing the one OR doing the other - it is doing both.
Have a regular backup ( I prefer Retrospect as software and hard disks
as backup media) AND good repair tools ( all I ever needed is
Diskwarrior and apple hard disk tools).
I disagree. If you have a good backup strategy, there's really no need
to repair. You can wipe the disk, restore from backup, and carry on with
life. Besides, Disk Utility comes with every Mac and offers basic
repair functionality.
Restoring a backup takes hours. Repairing is done in a few minutes. At
least my experience... and it worked in 99% of all problems.
What you might want to do is checking your drive for bad blocks. There
are some utilities around ( I give no recommendation here). This is
necessary, if you consider defragmenting your disks (there is no need
to defragment for 95% of all users).
Right - that was my point. For most people, it's far more advantageous
to invest in a solid backup strategy than it is to purchase disk
recovery tools.
Depends on your user status. Professionals will not only depend on one
backup - they have two of them and a (tested) backup strategy. They
will also check their system from time to time (each two to four weeks)
with their preferred tool (mine is disk warrior) and do repairs, if
necessary. In case of problems, this is the first step. The last backup
usually is several hours old - preserving the work done since the last
backup is the second step. If the repair worked - well, you are done...
If not, step three is restoring the last backup.
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