General reminder for those here at Speedguide

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:49 pm

Back up your files often.

Comtrad · Post by **Comtrad** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:49 pm

Uh oh...how much you lose?

Shinobi · Post by **Shinobi** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:50 pm

Jim wrote:Back up your files often.

Oh No

.. You lost some stuff?

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:55 pm

http://www.carbonite.com

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 11:57 pm

Comtrad wrote:Uh oh...how much you lose?

About 120 gigs of music data, mostly from CDs of mine that I've ripped in the past month or so.

And as luck would have it, I was having one of those "You know, I should probably make a backup of this stuff...just in case..." moments not that long ago.

I'm currently flipping a coin on whether I should grab the sledgehammer, or the really, really big sledgehammer.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:16 am

raid 5 nas ftw (or ambackup

)

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:20 am

I just realized that the drive also had the recovery data from my IBM Death Star.

I hate computers.

Zilog B · Post by **Zilog B** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:49 am

That's a lot of Celine Dion

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:04 am

Actually it was a mix of Guy Lombardo, Lawrence Welk, and Liberace.

loop2kil · Post by **loop2kil** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:21 am

yes, i will never store anything important on nothing less than a raid 1.
learned the lesson the hard way

Roody · Post by **Roody** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:50 am

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 8:17 am

External HDD FTW!

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:22 am

Sava700 wrote:External HDD FTW!

right, because that's MUCH less likely to fail than an internal one.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:25 am

Amro wrote:right, because that's MUCH less likely to fail than an internal one.

You see.... it's EX - TER - NAL ......which means that it isn't IN-TER-NAL ...which means that it's outside of the the 'puter thingy and therefore not IN-SIDE.....which means that y'know ...it works.....'n stuff .....yeah.

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:58 am

Zilog B wrote:That's a lot of Celine Dion

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:57 am

Amro wrote:right, because that's MUCH less likely to fail than an internal one.

yeah...? I turn it on when I back stuff up and turn it back off...

no sense in running it and wearing it down to make it crash sooner when its not being used.

Been sitting here for 2hours and have had 3 students come in with harddrives that have failed over night.. it happens. Its amazing that all 3 of them had "external" hard drives to back their stuff up on and saved the day!

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:34 pm

Zilog B wrote:That's a lot of Celine Dion

There were at least two albums from Dion, but sorry to disappoint you, Celine was nowhere to be found.

The external drive isn't a bad idea, but I'd probably go RAID for my main backup solution.

Many thanks to those have helped.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 3:50 pm

Good reminder. I need to rma a 250gig seagate I have. I'll backup my file drive onto it.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:02 pm

sorry for the loss, i know the feeling

raid is not a back solution, at least that is what i have been lead to believe, burn that data to dvd/cd and make multiple copies to multiple external HDD's.

at least that's what i do, but i am kinda paranoid of losing some things.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:20 pm

Mark wrote:raid is not a back solution, at least that is what i have been lead to believe, burn that data to dvd/cd and make multiple copies to multiple external HDD's.

While I'm not all that familiar with RAID myself, I'm under the impression that a setup like RAID 1 is basically creating a mirror of your data on a second hard drive. IE, two 300 gig HDs give you 300 gigs of usable space, with a 300 gig duplicate in case of drive failure.

I do burn backups to DVD, but I hadn't gotten around to tackling that drive (or any of the drives in that machine) yet.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 5:21 pm

Mark wrote:sorry for the loss, i know the feeling

raid is not a back solution, at least that is what i have been lead to believe, burn that data to dvd/cd and make multiple copies to multiple external HDD's.

at least that's what i do, but i am kinda paranoid of losing some things.

the real solution is amazon s3.

sava: external hard drives are NOT more reliable than internal ones -- it's just a second copy on the same volatile media. your anecdotal examples don't change this fact.

Blisster · Post by **Blisster** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:17 pm

i'm telling you all

http://www.carbonite.com

its a great service and very affordable. i've been looking into enterprise on-line backup solutions for my company and came across this.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:42 pm

Sava700 wrote: Been sitting here for 2hours and have had 3 students come in with harddrives that have failed over night..

Were they chix?

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Wed Oct 03, 2007 7:44 pm

Gmail storage FTW and its free, just open a new account when you need another 2 gig.

Massa · Post by **Massa** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:28 am

That's a lot of gmail accounts Lefty :P.

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:20 am

http://www.getgspace.com/

Andrzej · Post by **Andrzej** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:57 pm

for everyday backup ThP X60s
I use 6GB TransFlash
SanDisk microSDHC™ 6GB SDSDQ-6144
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog ... Cards.aspx link

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 6:16 pm

Sava700 wrote: Been sitting here for 2hours and have had 3 students come in with harddrives that have failed over night..

CableDude wrote:Were they chix?

Yes or no Sava!?