reminder - make backups!

[mccordia 74]

Having just suffered one of those 'they wont happen to me' hard disc failures (lacie, removeable HD 250 gig) I cant stress enough how important backups are.

Aside from a few small things (which I luckely managed to recover), I had everything backup on a huge 400 GB ethernet disc (one of those cheep portable ones)

So in the end, all it cost me was one evening of stress, and I still have all my data.

Had the backup not been there, youd now here me cry and rant about about a dozen work in progres edits/projects lost forever (a big DVD project for Tim Porter, A big wingsuit video/DVD for the An72 boogie etc etc)

The money you spend on one single day of serious jumping, is more then the cost of a simple backup drive.

If you done have one..do yourself a favour and get one...because it will bite you one day..

JC
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[Zee 0]

Good to hear you didn't lose anything. HD Failures suck.

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[karenmeal 0]

Here is a reminder that I just learned....

Don't lend out your CF card if there are pictures on it that you don't want deleted!

"Life is a temporary victory over the causes which induce death." - Sylvester Graham

[bergh 0]

Close call .. Glad you didn't loose anything

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[DougH 270]

Been there done that... the clicking in my laptop should have tipped me off, but it kept working when I hit it so I never got around to it.

I lost the whole porn collection!!

"The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall"
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[tonyhathaway 0]

BACKUP! Yes. My digital photos are on 4 different hard drives, located in 2 different places. 2 drives at the office at the DZ, 2 drives at the house. One is in a fireproof safe. Storage is cheap. re-shooting thousands of images is not. You do the math.........

My O.C.D. has me chasing a dream my A.D.D. won't let me catch.

[mccordia 74]

And when your backupdrive crashes 2 days after the main drive crashed...MAN you start sweating!

But luckely managed to copy/save 90% of the data (copied the most important stuf first) onto another drive before it finaly froze up forever.

The backup drive was brand new, and only had about 20 hours of operation on it. The other drive was 1.5 years old, and used quite a bit. But not insanely much. Both where 'Lacie' drives...(switched to Western Digital now, no longer trust lacie, also after hearing more horror stories)

My 2 new (external) WD backup drives spinning happily, and looking for a Raid5 replacement in 2 months.

JC
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