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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!!!

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

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

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!

Real men don't do back up's!

...Real men cry a lot...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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!)

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

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

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.