coldel Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 ..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly. So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case. Quote
Sam Mcgoo Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 Yesterday I backed up my laptop for the first time in 4 years! Thought I'd better. Quote
Wasso Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 Never backed it up..... I have an external drive where I keep a large majority of my stuff, but that's not backed up anywhere either. Quote
JetSet Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I use I-Drive, a free Internet backup system and have a scheduled incremental backup at 04:30 every day. You get 2gb of free space, but you can buy extra if you need to. Easy to use, just install and forget http://www.idrive.com/ Hmm, free 5gb now Pete Quote
Ekona Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I have a 2TB drive which backs up all my stuff nightly, and then a further 2TB drive which backs up the back up weekly. Lost a HD full of music once due to mechanical failure, and although I managed to get 95% of the stuff back by re-ripping off an iPod, I'm not making the same mistake twice. Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 this is always in the back of my mind that I have 2Tb of non backed up stuff including all my films, music and pictures I should burn some DVD's really. Quote
Ekona Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 this is always in the back of my mind that I have 2Tb of non backed up stuff including all my films, music and pictures I should burn some DVD's really. DVDs? What is this, the 90's? Go and get a couple of cheap HDs, I got both of mine for £80. Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 this is always in the back of my mind that I have 2Tb of non backed up stuff including all my films, music and pictures I should burn some DVD's really. DVDs? What is this, the 90's? Go and get a couple of cheap HDs, I got both of mine for £80. I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt Quote
spursmaddave Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I have everything backed up, i always do a complete new install on all my machines every few months anyway... DVDs are good for porn, you can write 'Autocad V2.0' on them and nobody will ever know Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I have everything backed up, i always do a complete new install on all my machines every few months anyway... DVDs are good for porn, you can write 'Autocad V2.0' on them and nobody will ever know Backing up mobile phones used to be a massive bug bear of mine, thankfully cloud based google wonders and joy look after all my stuff now Quote
maz0 Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 ..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly. So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case. Was it mechanical failure? If it's file system then give me a PM and I'll see if you can recover anything Quote
Ekona Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case Really!!! Quote
coldel Posted May 27, 2011 Author Posted May 27, 2011 ..I lost about 2 months worth of stuff when my Mac Pro hard drive went pop last night - including every picture I have taken of my new Z and from the meet at the Grasshopper recently. I do have a backup from early March but wish I had done it at least monthly. So - might be a little project for you to spend half hour backing stuff up tonight - worth it, just in case. Was it mechanical failure? If it's file system then give me a PM and I'll see if you can recover anything Thanks mate, it was mechanical, it utterly corrupted (probably my fault I rarely closed down the laptop properly just closed the lid and never used it on a flat surface) even when trying repair disk utility it couldn't even find the disk at all. Its in the repair shop now having an upgraded HD put in... Quote
Chris`I Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 I thought about this but... well they could fail too. DVD's are invincible!!! At least I can put them in nice cases where they won't get hurt DVDs aren't invincible, some of my early ones have pitted and rotted away I had to buy a brand new copy of Terminator 2 but it wasn't in the swanky metal case Really!!! DVD-R are far from invincible. All sorts can go wrong with them. I have a fair few DVD-R that are now not readable as the dye in them is shot for some reason. Others are scratched and others have just been broken. They are not anywhere near as hardy as pressed discs that you get when you buy films on DVD. The only completely failsafe option is a proper online backup solution that themselves has a multiple redudant backups along with your own redundant backups. I have 3 copies of most things I need, (1) Laptop, (2) portable HDD and (3) online backups. I use Mozy for my online backups. You learn the hard way when you loose photos that cant be gotten back Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 Thankyou for this thread, it's given me the kick in the bum to back up all my photos tonight they are the only thing i really couldn't cope with losing. Quote
coldel Posted May 27, 2011 Author Posted May 27, 2011 That was the point really, gutted I lost mine so hopefully others don't suffer the same fate! Quote
Maccaman Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 If you put your pics on Photobucket shouldn't they be safe from loss? Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 If you put your pics on Photobucket shouldn't they be safe from loss? yeah but in a compressed form. my pictures are 4.7Mb each uncompressed and are a huge resolution, photobucket ones are 1mb max and normally are only 800x600 resolution. Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 ian, porn can be redownloaded, 3 is excessive. So does anyone have a sniff of a good deal on a 1TB HD? Quote
BulletMagnet Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 ian, porn can be redownloaded, 3 is excessive. So does anyone have a sniff of a good deal on a 1TB HD? Last time I bought a 2TB internal for my PC I paid about £80 (Samsung SpinPoint F3) Quote
Husky Posted May 27, 2011 Posted May 27, 2011 i was thinking of getting an internal and using an adapter thing to make it an external as it is possibly cheaper??? i want to attach it to the router as it has a usb connection for external storage. Quote
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