Hard Drive crashed. Need my sie from the web!!

[valley decor]

Hi All,

If I FTP all the website files to my puter, Can I plug them into actinic site folder?? The latest snapshop I did to CD backup was a while ago. Please advise on how to do this. Not worried about orders, just content.

Thanks!!

[Cheapprices4u]

nope............. unless you have a copy of an acd or the entire site1 folder your pretty much stuffed

how crashed is yoru hd there may be a way to recover

[valley decor]

Fried....................

No way to plug the folders back in??

[RuralWeb]

as always do a forum search and you will see that it is impossible to get the site from the server.

[Darren B]

What Gareth is saying is, how bad is the hard drive, can you not stick it in another pc and copy the files from it, just because you cant boot from it does not mean its trashed.

There are other companies out there that can take the data from the hard drive, it aint cheap but it could save you a lot of time.

i guess the moral of the story, and is preached all the time "BACK UP's"

[jont]

You can get the images down but that is about it... which is just as well otherwise your site could be open to all manner of vulnerabilities if someone could download content and redirect to their PSP for example.

[jont]

The latest snapshot I did to CD backup was a while ago.

This should be one for the wish list ... the ability NOT to back up to the same physical drive as the Actinic folder.

All the backups in the world are no good if on the same drive that dies, catches fire or walks out of the door on an heroin exchange scheme.

[guccij]

Can I recommend for future occasions, an online back up? It means that your acd site back ups and all other Actinic folders are sitting there, to be downloaded should the worst happen.

I've been using Back 2 Go for years, and also now have Carbonite online back up (cheaper but not UK-based).

While it might seem over the top to have two running, I prefer not to take any chances. Certainly, when I needed to re-install Windows, it was very reassuring to know my data was all safely elsewhere.

[Duncan Rounding]

You could of course keep a backup on your site server space as well.

[RuralWeb]

You can even use actinic to upload a snapshot to your server for safe keeping - LOADS of options out there also lots of threads on the forum to work through on the subject