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\"\"Miracle Max:<\/strong>\u00a0It just so happens that your friend here is only\u00a0mostly<\/em>\u00a0dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. Now, mostly dead is slightly\u00a0alive<\/em>. Now, all dead, well, with all dead, there’s usually only one thing that you can do.
\nInigo Montoya:<\/strong>\u00a0What’s that?
\nMiracle Max:<\/strong>\u00a0Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
\n\u2014\u00a0The Princess Bride<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n
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It turns out computer hard drives are similar to fictional characters from the beloved movie\u00a0The Princess Bride<\/em>. They are hardware and will eventually fail. And if you haven’t backed up that data, well, you may have a problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A Thinker client came in facing just that situation. It was a photography company that had saved about 1.5 terrabytes of images on a hard drive. The company did not have a backup of those images so when it failed …. Rob Davis, who heads the managed I.T. offerings<\/a> for Thinker, ran the dead hard drive through a Linux data recovery program. It took three days, but more than 95 percent of the images were recovered. Davis then worked with the company to move those images to a cloud-based system to ensure it wouldn’t happen again. The takeaways from this episode?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n