Comments on: Data Backup: Test Your Recovery Solution http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/26/data-backup-test-your-recovery/ Hard drive recovery data recovery resource center with how to guides for windows RAID Snap server file system repair NTFS partition recovery tools tips and tricks to recover data Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:43:29 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Michael Stankard http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/26/data-backup-test-your-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Michael Stankard Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:39:13 +0000 http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2007/03/26/data-backup-test-your-recovery/#comment-234 As I was reading this post on Sunday prior to publishing it, I thought "man, I haven't checked my wife's backups in a while, I better do it tomorrow". Monday morning my wife wakes me up (at 6 AM no less) and tells me she is getting S.M.A.R.T errors on her computer. What a way to start the week! Lucky for me it was her second hard drive which I use for backup. I pulled the drive and booted up the machine and everything went well until she opened Quickbooks. Apparently the main company files were on the bad drive and the backup files were on the C drive. We had just got our corporate taxes back from the accountant on Friday and major changes were done to the Quickbooks files reflecting his magic touches and reconciliations to our company profile. Well long and tearful story short, the backup file was no good. I had never checked it and pretty much figured that Quickbooks knew what it was doing. If I hadn't gotten the new file from the accountant on Friday, we would have been totally screwed! Sure I work for a data recovery company and they are experts at recovering databases from Exchange to Quickbooks, but the embarrassment alone would have killed me. SO TEST YOUR BACKUPS!!!! As I was reading this post on Sunday prior to publishing it, I thought “man, I haven’t checked my wife’s backups in a while, I better do it tomorrow”. Monday morning my wife wakes me up (at 6 AM no less) and tells me she is getting S.M.A.R.T errors on her computer. What a way to start the week! Lucky for me it was her second hard drive which I use for backup. I pulled the drive and booted up the machine and everything went well until she opened Quickbooks.

Apparently the main company files were on the bad drive and the backup files were on the C drive. We had just got our corporate taxes back from the accountant on Friday and major changes were done to the Quickbooks files reflecting his magic touches and reconciliations to our company profile.

Well long and tearful story short, the backup file was no good. I had never checked it and pretty much figured that Quickbooks knew what it was doing. If I hadn’t gotten the new file from the accountant on Friday, we would have been totally screwed! Sure I work for a data recovery company and they are experts at recovering databases from Exchange to Quickbooks, but the embarrassment alone would have killed me.

SO TEST YOUR BACKUPS!!!!

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