I'm an idiot but also insanely lucky

The M2 SSD with my Home Assistant OS died in the night, I did have automatic backups turned on, but to the same drive, stupid I know. I had some success in being able to browse the drive by using testdisk but it dropped out after a few seconds, I had the idea that maybe if the drive was very cold I'd get a bit more chance to access it... So in a ziplock bag and the freezer it went After beginning to rebuild my HA from a 3 month old backup (which has had many, many changes along the way), I tried the SSD again after being frozen for about 4 hours, it lasted long enough for me to get the two most recent backups and they successfully restored. I'm now backing up to a network share as well as the internal drive! submitted by /u/Cspiby [link] [comments]