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..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly.

 

So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case.

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I have a 2TB drive which backs up all my stuff nightly, and then a further 2TB drive which backs up the back up weekly.

 

Lost a HD full of music once due to mechanical failure, and although I managed to get 95% of the stuff back by re-ripping off an iPod, I'm not making the same mistake twice.

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this is always in the back of my mind that I have 2Tb of non backed up stuff including all my films, music and pictures :( I should burn some DVD's really.

DVDs? What is this, the 90's? :p

 

Go and get a couple of cheap HDs, I got both of mine for £80.

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this is always in the back of my mind that I have 2Tb of non backed up stuff including all my films, music and pictures :( I should burn some DVD's really.

DVDs? What is this, the 90's? :p

 

Go and get a couple of cheap HDs, I got both of mine for £80.

I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! :lol: At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt :dummy:

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I have everything backed up, i always do a complete new install on all my machines every few months anyway...

 

DVDs are good for porn, you can write 'Autocad V2.0' on them and nobody will ever know ;)

:lol::lol:

 

Backing up mobile phones used to be a massive bug bear of mine, thankfully cloud based google wonders and joy look after all my stuff now :#1:

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..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly.

 

So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case.

 

Was it mechanical failure?

 

If it's file system then give me a PM and I'll see if you can recover anything :thumbs:

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I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! :lol: At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt :dummy:

DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away :( I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case :(

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I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! :lol: At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt :dummy:

DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away :( I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case :(

Really!!! :scare:

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..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly.

 

So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case.

 

Was it mechanical failure?

 

If it's file system then give me a PM and I'll see if you can recover anything :thumbs:

 

Thanks mate, it was mechanical, it utterly corrupted (probably my fault I rarely closed down the laptop properly just closed the lid and never used it on a flat surface) even when trying repair disk utility it couldn't even find the disk at all. Its in the repair shop now having an upgraded HD put in...

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I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! :lol: At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt :dummy:

DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away :( I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case :(

Really!!! :scare:

DVD-R are far from invincible. All sorts can go wrong with them. I have a fair few DVD-R that are now not readable as the dye in them is shot for some reason. Others are scratched and others have just been broken. They are not anywhere near as hardy as pressed discs that you get when you buy films on DVD.

 

The only completely failsafe option is a proper online backup solution that themselves has a multiple redudant backups along with your own redundant backups. I have 3 copies of most things I need, (1) Laptop, (2) portable HDD and (3) online backups. I use Mozy for my online backups. You learn the hard way when you loose photos that cant be gotten back :cry:

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If you put your pics on Photobucket shouldn't they be safe from loss?

yeah but in a compressed form. my pictures are 4.7Mb each uncompressed and are a huge resolution, photobucket ones are 1mb max and normally are only 800x600 resolution.

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