I have this thread and its two topics also in WSL because, like fine automobiles, there is a quality, there is a variety, of folks in here not found anywhere else!
First Response restore and recovery ideas, beliefs, practices, experiences
Borrowing from the philosopher Rene Descartes, let’s make the title longer:
First Response ideas, beliefs, practices, experiences for OS & Data: backups, restores, and recoveries.
First Response means what could be done by an end-user who just might be facing:
— possible physically failing hard-drives [which are often called “c drive” and “d drive]
— possible logically failing hard-drives [ditto as above line]
OR might be facing:
— a deleted file and/or folder that needs to be un-deleted
— a set of deleted files and/or folders that need to be un-deleted
— folders and files that cannot be simply un-deleted, restored from Windows Recycle Bin
— deleted folders and files that no longer exist in the MFT [Master File Table]
— the MFT no longer functions and/or the OS no longer functions
— the often called “c drive”, the OS partition no longer exists [often, this “c drive” also contained the data]
— the often called “d drive”, the data partition no longer exists
First Response Backups mean —
First Response Restores mean —
First Response Recoveries mean —
— respectively, what could be done by an end-user prior to doing “anything, everything”.
Borrowing from Star Trek, the “Prime Directives” are:
— to preserve and protect end-user’s data
— to preserve and protect end-user’s OS
— to restore what can be restored; data first priority, OS 2nd priority
— to recover what can be recovered; data first priority, OS 2nd priority
Roland
**This is a work in progress. There will be redactions, corrections, additions, etc. **
"Take care of thy backups and thy restores shall take care of thee." Ben Franklin, revisted
