Lost hard drive to Tomodachi Collection Mod Stuff

I haven't bothered to sign in in a while and I lost most of the mod stuff. I kinda made a rant on how this happened:

Windows was running slow and laggy, so I wanted to switch over to ZorinOS (debian-based linux which I already dual-booted). But then it won't auto-mount my internal SSD, so I tried formatting it. I formatted my external SSD instead, which had the mod files on there. After that kerfuffle, Zorin became slow and didn't work as well. So I switched to Bazzite, but for some reason there's a bug with the external monitor that makes everything 15 fps. So I switched to CatchyOS (arch linux) and everything seems to be mostly working fine... except for windows programs. I spent today trying to set up Winboat and I hope that works. Bazzite also killed my windows boot drive after I set up Windows again. Finally, I was using the data recovery software DMDE and it turns out I overwrote the files I copied over. I'm also behind on my summer college course because of this OS kerfuffle, and that's my main priority right now.

On the plus side, I didn't make that many changes to the rom hack after I uploaded version 0.9000, so I can just extract all the files from the game after I apply the patch and work on that instead.

Sorry to disappoint that one guy who didn't like Living the Dream and has nothing else to play. Here's something fun you can check out if you haven't heard about it already: ACDX! It's that one version of Animal Crossing Gamecube from Japan with the e-reader content. There's also a lot more tweaks to the game.

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I formatted my external SSD instead, which had the mod files on there.
Such things happen. Have done something similar in the past. Shouted some bad words and restored the wrongly overwritten partition.
That is what a robust backup strategy is for. The very common 3-2-1 scheme is the absolute minimum. Three copies, two different kinds of storage media, one offsite.

Even better is following 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Three copies, two different kinds of media, one off-site, one immutable or air-gapped, zero errors (a backup is only useful if proven to be correct).
 
Why not just stick with stock Debian? Or if that's to barebones, how about Mint since you were already using a distro based on Ubuntu ?
 
Why not just stick with stock Debian? Or if that's to barebones, how about Mint since you were already using a distro based on Ubuntu ?
I tried mint once but most of my drivers I needed were missing (this was back in 2022). There was also something about LXQT (also tried Lubuntu) that didn't have my monitor configuration correct, and the windows button didn't bring up the program menu.
 
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Such things happen. Have done something similar in the past. Shouted some bad words and restored the wrongly overwritten partition.
That is what a robust backup strategy is for. The very common 3-2-1 scheme is the absolute minimum. Three copies, two different kinds of storage media, one offsite.

Even better is following 3-2-1-1-0 rule. Three copies, two different kinds of media, one off-site, one immutable or air-gapped, zero errors (a backup is only useful if proven to be correct).
I wish I could've stuck to this rule but I don't have that many SSD/hard drives. Most of them are already full
 
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I wish I could've stuck to this rule but I don't have that many SSD/hard drives. Most of them are already full
A really bad moment to be in need of storage space with these inflated prices. I also ran out of spare drives for playing around with vintage machines.

A few ideas:
  • Single layer BD-R are relatively cost efficient for small to medium sized backups. They are immutable and archive discs will most likely outlive us. M-DISC 100GB are prohibitively expensive, but if you can get some of them they will be a convenient method of holding your immutable and most valuable data.
  • Apply the 3-2-1 rule (or better) on your most valuable data first. Usually only a fraction of what we have is truly irreplaceable. I stopped counting the number of times I read something like, "My precious baby photos are gone since the phone went belly-up! HELP!!"
  • @IC has great experiences with LTO. One time investment for a drive and controller card, but the tapes are a good bang for the buck.
  • With a stable connection you could also use free online storage. TeraBox offers 1024GB free. The company is fishy. Limitations:
    • Limited number of files
    • No files bigger than 4GB allowed
    • Download (not upload) speed is throttled on free accounts
There is no cloud, there is just someone else's computers. No matter how fishy Terabox might be, I gave uploaded an almost 1TB VeraCrypt container in 3.99GB chunks.

Good luck!
 

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