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bye bye HD
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:09 pm
by x_site
Well just lost my hard drive and all in it... despite attempts to recover some date things are looking quite bad.
So for the few of you who don't make frequent updates just think about this...
It is best to spend a couple of hours backing up info then a week and muchos $$$ trying to get it back when it goes wrong...
I guess it gives me a chance too create my MXM library from scratch and sort out all those path issues
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:18 pm
by b-kandor
bummer, I lost 2 hard drives this year alone after about an 8 year stretch with no problems.
I didn't loose anything though because I'm a backup freak. C drive is a mirrored array. Data is on a raid5 array (4 x 250gb). Backup nightly to a esata portable hd. A second portable hd is stored offsite (friends house). Online backup runs constantly (carbonite 5$ per month, unlimited storage).
Kandor
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:24 pm
by x_site
well have sufferd my first hd loss so until now always assumed i could find a way even if things went wrong... it looks like you have a fail safe method..
a mate of mine backed up all his stuff into an external hd and when his pc hard drive failed he was so confident he had a copy of all his work... well untill he found out the portable one was also messed up....
in this cas 3 is a magic number; always back up your backups
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:20 pm
by -Adrian
b-kandor wrote:bummer, I lost 2 hard drives this year alone after about an 8 year stretch with no problems.
I didn't loose anything though because I'm a backup freak. C drive is a mirrored array. Data is on a raid5 array (4 x 250gb). Backup nightly to a esata portable hd. A second portable hd is stored offsite (friends house). Online backup runs constantly (carbonite 5$ per month, unlimited storage).
Kandor
holy cow
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:37 pm
by b-kandor
Only in india!
I know - it sounds extreme when you lay it all out like that. But seriously though, I have probably 5 years of design time in that data - mostly all propriatory and a lot of my clients sort of rely on that data being accessible even years later for revisions or modifications.
Earlier this year I lost a drive during a lightning storm - it was the C drive which was lucky because on the D drive I had about 200 hours of work that wasn't backed up that had been done in the previous 2 weeks of 15 hour days. I would have been hospitalized if I had needed to recreate all that
Kandor
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:48 pm
by DELETED
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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:22 pm
by Fernando Tella
Well, I'm using a very unsophisticated method. I use gmail accounts (2.74GB) as storage space with the Firefox extesion GSpace. This extension opens a FTP tab so you can use the gmail space in a FTP transfer way. It authomatically cuts the files in email sizes so it can be storaged in gmail, but you don't see this unless you get into the account in the tradicional way.
Of course it's manual and you cannot schedule the backups, but hey!, it's free.
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:50 pm
by ricardo
I use this:
http://www.genie-soft.com. They also have an online service.
The software worked ok the few times I needed it. Never tryied the online stuff.
Ricardo
Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:54 pm
by aitraaz
I mean, the online stuff looks cool and all, but I'm not quite sure I'd want to dump the contents of my hd on an online server, much less google's servers, if i'm correct they reserve the right to index everything on gmail anyways...
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:07 am
by b-kandor
Give carbonite a try. You pay them 50$ us for 1 year and the storage is unlimited. The only catch is after uploading the first 50 gb (takes a couple of weeks probably) then they limit you to .5 GB per day. Still lots in my mind.
Also, while your right to distrust google. With a place whose income comes from you and not advertisers I have more trust. ie. Their business would crumble if even a rumor got started about data security.
Unforunately, I haven't found a way to work carbonite in winxp64 yet.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:19 pm
by DELETED
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:34 pm
by b-kandor
I just found out that carbonite will work on x64 with a small modification of the startup path.
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:53 pm
by DELETED
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Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:57 pm
by b-kandor
I'm going to install it later so I'll let you know, but those are just 2 fields in the properties of a windows shortcut me thinks. So by editing your carbonite shortcut it points it to the correct similiar locations where it expects to find things winxp32.
Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:33 pm
by PA3K
