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blckfire wrote:In the meanwhile I'll be trying to recover the lost backups. I'll keep you updated.

Awesome news, looking forward to getting some chars back

Hey blckfire

Any update yet?

Hey ! is there any update yet please?

Hi , Me again... Any update?

I'll drop him a skype and see what is what.

I will say for right now, do not hold your breath, as someone who experienced data loss oh not that long ago and am about to put a few 7MM Rem Mag rounds through his PC, I think the data loss is likely a permanency.

I could be wrong, Lord knows I have been wrong before. However, I am certain I can unequivocally say, in this instance I am correct. I can run through my files but I am also certain that I was not entrusted with a backup of anything regarding the character backups.

Thanks for.the reply.oden , I guess I'm lucky in this instance as I deleted the chars after the files were lost , so I am 100% certain that blckfire has my files for the characters ( from around march ) Thank you for.checkng either way.

Just let this be a lesson for you all backups should be kept in 3s.

Local, cloud/off site and offline.

Local is self explanatory, local to your PC.

Cloud storage or off site, get yourself a google Drive acct for cloud OR one of the plethora of other cloud services. If you are however strapped for cash, pick up a thumb drive, external hard drive or a bunch of DvDs and store backups on it and send it to a trusted friend or family for safe keeping.

Offline is stored on a thumb drive, DVD(s), external hard drive, etc. Any medium that is easy to store AND crucially rarely accessed by you, this means not always plugged in to your PC.

Those are the three commandments laid forth by Steve Gibson on archiving and he knows his stuff even if I'm on a different wave length than he.

Note: if you're in need of a hard drive utility click the link to look at his SpinRite utility it's fantastic but there's a ton of other goodies at his site too.

I applied the first character restores, still have to check with the account owner if it is working.

If everything is ok we should be able to take care of other requests, if we have the backups for them...

blckfire wrote:I applied the first character restores, still have to check with the account owner if it is working.

If everything is ok we should be able to take care of other requests, if we have the backups for them...

Who do I have to send a request to?

Hey wolf I believe the char restores go through Vulcan