****** BACK UP YOUR DATA *******

[RDR]

When did you last back up?

Isnt it time you did it?

If you get time today, do it. Go and buy those Blank DVDs, Clear out your harddrives of junk, defrag, repair permissions etc.

Also if you have time...

Have you got the latest drivers?

Housekeeping never goes amiss.

[loopdon]

good idea. will do, chief :)

[eyeswithoutaface]

was thinking of buying an external hardrive on saturday just for that, it means going pretty overdrawn though, but its important, oooooo decisions

[xfive]

was thinking of buying an external hardrive on saturday just for that, it means going pretty overdrawn though, but its important, oooooo decisions

You can go one week without hookers and crack

:cheese:

[eyeswithoutaface]

a whole week without crack?

yeah, right!!!!

[RDR]

a whole week without crack?

yeah, right!!!!

if you look at it the 'right way' the hooker also provides the crack...

[rounser]

Quality suggestion. Will do now.

[holotropik]

hmm...crack, hooker, back
up.

[audioinjection]

yes! just backed up some files a few days ago, really important thing to do!

[dan the acid man]

i've been slack of late, so thats what im going to do tomorrow, if i haven't everybody can give me a punch in the arm

[danielmarshall]

I've just had a HD failure a month ago. AU$800 later and I have most of it back. Thankfully samples and project files are small and so less likely to corrupt.

[RDR]

I've just had a HD failure a month ago. AU$800 later and I have most of it back. Thankfully samples and project files are small and so less likely to corrupt.

An NIGHTMARE!.. glad you got your stuff back!

There's a good example of why folks... who knows what gems could be lost if you dont..

[theledge]

quite right...i lost about 18 months of work a few years ago...had a dodgy hard drive and one day it just irreversibly died :( :cry: :neutral: :crybaby:

Entirely my own fault of course...for being a slack bastard when it came to doing the boring stuff.

These days rarely a fortnight goes by without me digging out me external USB drive and diligently backuping away ;)

[danielmarshall]

I NOW use Datakeeper by Powerquest (the guys that do Partition Magic). It automatically backs stuff up to a second HD on your PC, removable storage device or network. Fantastic software, and worth the small investment. There are others out there too I imagine, but this one does the trick for me quite nicely.

When I went through my files I also found that only about 5 or 6 GB of it really was precious to me, so backing that stuff up to a DVD every month is a snitch once I had my backup sets defined.

Another issue.. SEPARATE DATA FROM PROGRAMS VIA SEPARATE HDs\PARTITIONS!!!! So few people do this and store everything on C:\, then cry bitterly when Windows corrupts itself, they get a virus or they reinstall Windows without backing everything up. It makes allot of sence for many other very practical reasons (like being able to restore ghost images of your OS). Here's how:

http://www.blackoutaudio.co.uk/portal/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=44196&hig hlight=partition

[RDR]

excellent advice from daniel-san!

Ps..

wax on...

wax hoff! :lol:

[alsynthe]

i lost everything 3 weeks ago after windows decided to corrupt and destroyed the contents of my hard drive.

[MARKEG]

wow this is best post in years!!!!!!

i will make sticky :)

[danielmarshall]

oh crap... so have you gone to a data recovery specialist yet? worth it if you haven't got anything backed up. you could try using RTools first (though it's a pretty fullon app)

[danielmarshall]

Good idea Mark

Hopefully it'll make people feel guilty enough to actually back thier stuff up. Christ it'd take me years to get back all my por.. er... "data" LOL

[MARKEG]

**** please guys, this is VERY important... BACK UP YOUR WORK... if you're reading this now, PLEASE shut down your browser and back up ****

[MARKEG]

was just thinking hard about this after many years of hell heh...

pc users - partition your drive into programs and data... then back up your progs with norton ghost.... and your data with dvd or cd...

mac users - buy a firewire drive and backup with superduper :)

[loopdon]

shit - after years this has possibly happened xxxl for me recently. i hope i can get this hdd to work again. pretty much all my tracks, fragments, fruity loops projects have gone over the ocean. though i think i can get the partitions to work again. man: 100+ gb worth of samplecds alone... damnit. when i only had a 40 gb hdd i had to backup far more recently to clear space. i always new somehow that getting a huge hdd could be a very bad idea... *grumble*

err and btw, dodge for mod! i mean it :)

[RDR]

shit - after years this has possibly happened xxxl for me recently. i hope i can get this hdd to work again. pretty much all my tracks, fragments, fruity loops projects have gone over the ocean. though i think i can get the partitions to work again. man: 100+ gb worth of samplecds alone... damnit. when i only had a 40 gb hdd i had to backup far more recently to clear space. i always new somehow that getting a huge hdd could be a very bad idea... *grumble*

err and btw, dodge for mod! i mean it :)

bahah

if it suits then ill do it, but TBH LD does a great job.

[detfella]

how long do dvds last? i had some burned data from a few years ago and the dvd is now faulty...

[danielmarshall]

I don't trust DVDs. Get a dedicated HD for backup.

[eyeswithoutaface]

yeah screw that burnings dvd's off every month thing

going to pick up a nice 100gb external drive this afternoon, USB, nice and easy, and easy to transfer stuff over to my new machine when i get it

[eyeswithoutaface]

lovely stuff, one fat 100gb hard drive working its arse off

if you dont have an external drive for backup, then your officially gay