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Just this week logged on to Backblaze to restore my external disk which kind of died. Was a little late and no backup there :( I still hope that the HDD is ali
by jve 8y ago
Just this week logged on to Backblaze to restore my external disk which kind of died. Was a little late and no backup there :(
I still hope that the HDD is alive but perhaps USB controller is dead and will try to revive it.
- propogandist 8y agoYou can try a product called SpinRite (grc.com) - it can help revive the drive to get your data out of it.
- jve 8y agoMy computer doesn't see that drive. Once I connected it saw it for a moment, files were there. It's not the USB cable - same with different cable. Data recovery software (like photorec) wouldn't be problem. I'll try to hook it directly to a desktop PC
- propogandist 8y agoit's not meant to be data recovery, it's positioned as a harddrive maintenance software. The drive may be failing and this will help fix some of the problematic things to get the drive working.
- davidbarker 8y agoI'm not sure if it'll apply in your case, but I contacted support and they actually showed me that the backups were still available up to 30 days ~after~ the backup was supposedly deleted from the servers. I managed to recover my files with one day to spare (29 days after Backblaze supposedly deleted them). So it actually gave me 59 days since I last plugged the drive in. If you're within that window it might work for you. This is what they said to me: When you are viewing the contents of your backup, keep the "From" field at "Beginning of time" and change the "To" to a time when the data you need was still available. Please note that this can only be done up to the last 30 days since the last update on the backup. Here is an article that describes the process https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002936953-How-to-Roll-Back-Time https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002936953-Ho...