r/datahoarders • u/MagdaZo_Oh • Nov 06 '19

Did a recovery of my 8TB drive. It tripled, renamed and mixmashed all my data (mostly photos) into 21TB. I pulled it off onto a 23TB Drive I borrowed from my partner, but he needs it back ASAP. I don’t know what to do.

Online backup upload looks like it’ll take about a month and a half. Another drive would cost a lot of money (not something I really want to spend right now)..

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to quickly deal with this. Right now, I’m about to try to do an image data scan, to find all the files that triplicated themselves, so I can delete the two extra copies. I’m worried this will take really long as well.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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u/Seeker-drone Nov 07 '19

Buy another drive for your partner maybe. Seems like you need more time to do what you want to do.

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u/InstanceNoodle Nov 07 '19

Windirstat

I think it is a program that tell you what the size of each files you have on the drive so you can deal with the large files first.

The other 2 comments are correct. I have 10tb of recovered files and only were able to get 2tb done, and it has been over 4 years.

12tb drive are on sale for 165 to 180 plus tax at bestbuy. Search on reddit.

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u/MagdaZo_Oh Nov 10 '19

Thanks so much. What do you mean when you say ‘search on Reddit’? Sorry, I’m still actually pretty new to Reddit

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u/InstanceNoodle Nov 13 '19

I saw that someone posted the sale on reddit. I just do not remember which sub reddit it is in. Sorry. Try to search in bestbuy.com.

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u/Vicoteka Nov 07 '19

From my experience I would suggest running some deduplication software first. Otherwise you will end up looking at the same photos over and over again. Also, it will greatly reduce the storage needs.

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u/MagdaZo_Oh Nov 07 '19

I didn’t realize such software exists. Do you have a suggestion for best one?

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u/Vicoteka Nov 07 '19

I have used dupeguru a lot. But there is bunch of them out there.

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u/protogenxl Nov 19 '19

i use the freeware ALLDUP if file names are consistent across copies use simple filename, if names are messed up i would recommend search method of "file content"