Back Up Now – Do it now!
Hi guys and girls, a few days ago as mentioned in my previous blog my Hard Disk finally died. It had two failures in the past and the 3rd time it didn’t want to come back to life :)
Luckily enough, a couple of days before the HD went, I did a full back up of all my things... pure luck!
Had I not done it I would have lost plenty of stuff, work, music stuff, family pictures and movies, software etc... There was only some work(job) I had done the night before the HD failure that I was upset about losing but through safe mode I managed to use a USB HD to grab those files as well... and it was again luck! Because after that last boot in safe mode the HD didn’t want to boot anymore safe or other mode... at startup I would only get a system message saying that the HD was working outside its normal parameters, please back up data and replace HD. Then ‘tack’ noise is all I was able to get from the HD, physically broken :)
Just because I backed things up I didn’t get to stressed about it, also it was a small hard disk by today standards, it was a 60GB thing. Ordered a 250GB and the shop I got it from (an Amazon.co.uk seller) thought to send me a slightly more expensive 320GB instead! From 60 to 320... big difference.
So last night had to reinstall XP again, it took time to format all the new partitions and do a full update of XP from the old CD version I have to current version through windows updates.
Have plenty of partitions now and plenty of space and I will have to gradually install stuff.
What scares me now is to end up with hundreds of GBs of material and forget to back it up! I need to remember! Remember! Back it up!
Good thing now is that I can be online in the evening again and log on to StudioNet! J
So... message of the day?
BACK YOUR STUFF UP!
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Comment by wanabeme308 on January 5, 2008 at 8:52am - i'd lost my data many time before I create backup. But once I found out a DOS Virus, it can stop our HD anytime. My Data HD was stop and ask for formating. That scared me for three days. After that I tried to scan for Virus in Win XP, nothing happen, just located as unknow RAW format. I decided to create backup and tried scanning in DOS. What happen? Boot virus injected, I tried one more time in old win 98, and everything became better than I imagine...
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Comment by Mike Hillier on December 12, 2007 at 3:13pm
- I've been here, just lurking.
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Comment by TCwebtime on December 12, 2007 at 1:19pm
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Yes, I'll go for a RAID configuration when I'll upgrade to a new system.
Hi Mike, long time not seen :)
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- I have two 500GB FireWire drives in a mirrored RAID configuration, which I use for regular backs up of all my music. That way even if one of them dies I lose nothing.
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Hi yes I did have and still have an external Firewire/USB HD (only 60 or 60 GB can't remember now)
But it has always been used half for back ups and half as an extension to the internal small 60GB HD.
I use this external Firewire for temp backups while making less frequent but more permanent backups on DVDs disks. Funny thing is that even this Firewire HD (EZQuest) now and then makes a slow spinning noise at boot up (not every time).. then noise goes to normal... so I'm increasing frequency of DVD backups :)
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Comment by Androgene Collective on December 3, 2007 at 12:34pm -
Get an external drive !!!!! USB (The data rates fine for real time music) make sure its at least 7,400 rpm, plug it in once per week and copy ALL your music over !!!! I have two external drives, one in use , one only for backups and i haven't lost any data in over 7 years.
So yep, backup backup backup !!!!!!!
Glad your files are fine !
Now go record and fill up that hard drive !!!
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