I've salvaged so far backups from Feb., May, June, and July 2013, and downladed them. I'll know in another couple of days if they've stuck this time. In the meantime, I'm leaving the LaCie on my desktop so i can continue to retrieve items fr the next couple of days. I'm hpng that it does. If not, I'll call Tekserve and see if they can retrieve the backups from it.