Saved by Retrospect

Repeat after me:

This backup software is my own, there are many others like it, but this is mine. Without me my backup software is nothing, without my backup software I am nothing.

Yes, that's better.

Suffice to say I've just had my laptop saved by Dantz Retrospect which in 2 1/2 hours recovered 20GB of data and put it back to exactly how it had been at 11am the day before. Not that I've never fired my backup software in before, but this time it was for real.

If you don't have backup software get it, use it and test it. You may have RAID-0 or 5 but when you zap your entire file system (okay I confess, I botched an install of Ubuntu Linux) all the RAID in the world isn't going to do a thing for you.