Reminder: BACK UP YOUR DATA!

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 6:52 am

5 months ago, I replaced the hard drive in my Mac Book with one of the newer Hitachi 200gb 7200 rpm SATA drives. It was nice and fast and big, like me.

A few days ago, I got the dreaded "White screen of death" upon boot. It took a few tries to restart, but it eventually did. I immediately backed everything up to my external drive. Yesterday, the thing completely took a shit. I can't get it to do anything. It failed all the tests I threw at it, and my Windows box gives errors.

Dead drive? No problem, I've got a BACKUP!

Also, the drive is still under Hitachi's warranty. So in a week I'm going to have a brand new drive and all my data intact. All I have to do when I get the replacement is pop the drive in, install software, and drag/drop all my crap.

So let this be a reminder... BACKUP YOUR DATA!!!

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:35 am

yeah I do it on a weekly basis cause when my first desktop computer crashed on me I lost pretty much data

m:o · Post by **m:o** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:46 am

also, weekly backups here.
learned from failures....

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:59 am

Thanks for the reminder - been so busy with new tunes and gigs lately I just realised I didn't back up for nearly a month!

First thing when I get home!

duckpow · Post by **duckpow** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:05 am

Real men don't do back up's!

...Real men cry a lot...

...i've cried a lot and learned to be a sissy!

logic_user99 · Post by **logic_user99** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:14 am

I've not written anything worth backing up...

The 90gig of samples and Reaktor patches, however...!

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:47 am

i never back anything up.

i like the danger of losing everything and then having to start again, i usually also bin all my .wavs and stuff which really annoys my record label.

the way i see it is, when it's finished - it's finished, i need never look at it again.

ollyb303 · Post by **ollyb303** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:48 am

mosca wrote:i never back anything up.

i like the danger of losing everything and then having to start again, i usually also bin all my .wavs and stuff which really annoys my record label.

the way i see it is, when it's finished - it's finished, i need never look at it again.

minimal · Post by **minimal** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:43 pm

Rave wrote:Do you back up / clone the whole drive?

I so need to get a new drive

I do back up my music directories and stuff up regularly but I am scared if my drive went and I had to reinstall stuff on a new drive I wont get everything back to how it was

since I found a copy of Acronis Image 9 lying there in the office I took it and installed on my lappie, so evey month or after major changes in the system -which I rarely do anyway- I'll do a complete image of the main HD and I do incremental backups of my tracks folder every friday night.

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:29 pm

Anybody using Windows; with the current state of IE better have a backup, unless you like starting over.

adventurepants_ · Post by **adventurepants_** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:37 pm

Moody wrote:Anybody using Windows; with the current state of IE better have a backup, unless you like starting over.

what are you talking about?

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:55 pm

no backups here... per se: Just TONS of redundant duplicate copies (geddit?) spread across a ton of disks and ftp addresses.

Burn my house down? Sure, I bet I have the files online somewhere, haha!

(I kid though, I'm building a NAS and keeping that off-site, bitches!)

Moody · Post by **Moody** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:03 pm

adventurepants_ wrote:
Moody wrote:Anybody using Windows; with the current state of IE better have a backup, unless you like starting over.
what are you talking about?

http://www.symantec.com/norton/security ... ?bid=32721

http://www.informationweek.com/news/int ... =212500756

heavensdaw · Post by **heavensdaw** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:41 pm

Thanks for the nudge! I have been meaning to do a back up recently.. But kept putting off, as I have been getting into working on some new material..

All backed up now though, thanks to you!

Hd

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:43 pm

Moody wrote:Anybody using Windows; with the current state of IE better have a backup, unless you like starting over.

what are you on about? Anyone who has the brains to do a backup has the brains to not use IE, haha.