Backup ur Data!

[sony_apm_fan]

Just spent two days recovering 4gig of data from my father's HDD after a head crash.

A reeeeally good lesson....BACKUP your stuff!


Avoid the click of death..... :scream: :grim:

 

[walkgirl]

Jup!

I have a external 320 gb disk!, all my pictures and movies are on there

just have to figure out how to backup my mail

 

[2steppa]

Yep. That's why I've got 5 hard disks in my main PC and a USB external 500 GB. I see tooooo many failed HD's in my job every day and know the risk is of catastrophic failure is an ever present threat. Especially if you have a Western Digital 'Blue' series drive in your PC it seems

 

[sony_apm_fan]

This was a WD Caviar drive....not sure if it's blue series.....

Had to freeze it in the fridge overnight to get 5 minutes access!!

 

[ClaretBadger]

Had my house broken into last month
they stole my laptop AND my backup hard drive.

I lost 3000 of my last 3 months photographs - which I am never getting back. - I had a friends wedding shots, live gig work etc
Forget the other 5 laptops, 2 ipods, ps3, Wii and other do dahs I had stolen

Please everyone use CLOUD based back up - like CARBONITE

http://www.carbonite.co.uk/


Having all your disks in the same place is NO good!!!

 

[ford93]

Well received advice thanks!

Luckily I have an external 500 GB but I'm going to also do some on disc.

 

[redbenjoe]

anything wrong with using a bunch of thumb drives ??

 

[Fatdog]

anything wrong with using a bunch of thumb drives ??

You have thumb drives? I thought you were still using the 3.5" floppies.

 

[monchito]

yes he still does floppies are his specialty he does not know what a thumbdrive is

 

[jaetee]

anything wrong with using a bunch of thumb drives ??

Ira, that should be fine for your 1.2 megapixel image collection.

And with thumbdrives there are no moving parts to worry about.

 

[redbenjoe]

at the lowest resolution setting --my floppies hold 25 pictures -
then the thumb drives seen to hold about 30 floppies