just lost everything
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- Rand0
will you jump out of my cake?
- paraselene0
ah, well. the machine will be fixed but yon data is gone.
at least now i can stop thinking about it and start over.
thanks nt for all your support. and remember, kids, ALWAYS BACK UP!
- mrdobolina0
GOOD VIBrators!
- mrdobolina0
sorry to hear about the data loss, I have been zipping everything I do for clients and throwing it up on their server. they never know it is there.
- aliceblue0
Now that I'm really scared ...
what do you 'reckon is the best way to back up data?(sorry about your loss paraselene)
- welded0
The best way is to make multiple copies and keep one set off-location in case your house burns down or your hardware gets stolen. This would mean having a couple different hard drives and/or a regular DVD burning regimen. Alternatively you can just make regular back-ups to an external drive but that plan obviously doesn't have any built in redundancy. If you keep the extra hard drive connected 24/7 then you can use the software the probably came with the drivein the first place to set up automatic incrimental or full back-ups on a regular schedule.
- jaylarson0
ordered this thursday:
http://www.newegg.com/product/pr…i almost got a western digital, (http://www.newegg.com/Product/P...
what does (if) anyone else use besides a back up to dvd/zip (no click-deth)?
- Jaline0
you're lucky. my machine was crap and couldn't be fixed for a small price.
- jaylarson0
i once botched my drives so bad trying to install a faster cd-burner that I had to bring it to the geek squad... they can fix just about everthing (here in the states, I dunno if they exist outside this police state).... too expensive... but how can one really put a monetary value on their arts.......
- Carty0
its happened to me, not as badly.
lost 3 shoots which were paid gigs.
this happened way back when i was new to digital. again. it only has to happen once.you can't cry broke and cry cause your shit isn't backed up. you can back up to cd. not backing up is just plain silly. you can't rely on technology to always work. power fails. computers fail. yes i use apple too.
an external is as important as your next breath if you are in the digital industry. it's just a given. i have an external, where everything is backed up. and the external is backed up twice to dvd. every project, every thing. so really, nothing ever lives on my machine. except my programs and the current shit i am working on. which is, by the way, backed up. my pc i use only for itunes, i have 2 drives, one for the xp and one for the itunes folder. its backed up to dvd. my pc crashes all the time. never lost my music on the second drive though.
don't blame apple. blame no backup. cause if you backed up, you would just be waiting for a machine to put your shit back on. it sounds like you've been deleted.
external + dvd burner = a calm state of mind.
ps. i'm on pb hd #3. by the time my second crash happened, i was kinda laughing. cause i learned the first time. i even have all my program .dmg files with serial in a folder...
get organized my friend. sorry for the lecture...
- welded0
get organized my friend. sorry for the lecture...
Carty
(Oct 14 06, 20:17)Tough love.
- Rand0
that's terrible... my condolences
- skelly0
i even have all my program .dmg files with serial in a folder...
Carty
(Oct 14 06, 20:17)something else people often forget. that makes getting back up to speed so much easier.
- aliceblue0
program .dmg files
ummm ... godgled .dmg but,
don't really understand how to
find/ get them.anybody point me to an article etc.
duh..thanks
- chossy0
go to disc utility and do it there :D
- sureshot0
well said carty.
- Redmond0
I heard there's a method where you can freeze your HDD. Then you have a few minutes to recover data from it.
- rafalski0
norton ghost does it quite well, Redmond. Good for backing up startup partitions as well.
Para, looks like you valued your pb's continued insurance higher than the data you 'd lost, am i right? Or they wouldn't give you the hd back?