Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)
318 points by afilipovski | 190 comments
Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.
#data-recovery on Hacker News
7 stories tagged data-recovery, newest first.
Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site(tomshardware.com)
400 points by WithinReason | 195 comments
Tom's Hardware article reporting that a SanDisk memory card from the OceanGate Titan submersible was recovered undamaged, with stills and videos but none of the implosion.
Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver(dmitrybrant.com)
833 points by dmitrybrant | 275 comments
A blog post by Dmitry Brant describing how he used Claude Code to update an old Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives to work with modern kernels.
A disk so full, it couldn't be restored(sixcolors.com)
337 points by goranmoomin | 191 comments
Six Colors article by Glenn Fleishman about a Mac whose disk was so full it couldn't be restored, and the troubleshooting involved.
I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS(mastodon.social)
370 points by chromakode | 224 comments
A Mastodon thread by Max Goodhart describing how ZFS snapshots replicated with zrepl let him restore his laptop after an SSD died, losing only about 10 minutes of data.
Retrieving 1TB of data from a faulty drive with the help of woodworking tools(blog.jgc.org)
485 points by jgrahamc | 166 comments
John Graham-Cumming's blog post on recovering 1TB of data from a failed Seagate Firecuda 530 SSD in his gaming PC, using woodworking tools.
The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives(github.com)
460 points by WhiteDawn | 175 comments
GitHub repository document introducing a guide and personal story about recovering Frogger 2 source code from OnStream tape drives.