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just had my new hard drive fail - backup people!
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| optik |
just learning a harsh lesson that I already should have learned!
Have lost the last months work due to a HD failure..
more annoyingly it's creamed my samples and sounds folder which i haven't backed up for ages.
learn from my despair, back up now!
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| djnitride |
Yeah, backing up is important. Sorry for your loss, it always sucks to lose data.
Locally I have all my music stuff on a Storage Spaces Mirrored (better version of Raid 1 when used with ReFS) ReFS array and im running File History on it as well. All of my really important stuff is pushed to a remove server automatically Seafile. Even if files are deleted or overwritten, I can restore them via File History or the remote the Seafile web interface. Incase all of that fails, I take disk level snapshots of my Seafile server hosted on Amazon EC2 on a monthly basis and you have to have my cell phone authenticator to even login to Amazon in the first place to access the snaphsots :D |
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| aquila |
| Don't forget your SURGE PROTECTOR |
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| PaULiN0 |
| yeah I lost most of my new projects, sucks. |
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| meriter |
yep just bought a new 1tb from amazon, realized I'm still using firewire drives from 10 years ago for time machine, probably not the best idea
also going to start backing up to dvd and bringing those in to work. Still don't know how I feel about the cloud
New SSD is next but I think I've still got time on this one, bought it new in 2011. Next one will be much greater capacity since the price per gig has gone down considerably since then |
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by meriter
yep just bought a new 1tb from amazon, realized I'm still using firewire drives from 10 years ago for time machine, probably not the best idea
also going to start backing up to dvd and bringing those in to work. Still don't know how I feel about the cloud
New SSD is next but I think I've still got time on this one, bought it new in 2011. Next one will be much greater capacity since the price per gig has gone down considerably since then |
Cloud is a good "supplement" to your normal backup. For example, what if you house burnt down or got broken into? You would want stuff in the cloud.
If you have a local backup and a cloud backup, you have all your bases covered in case of disaster. |
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| junkproject |
| Raid 1 is your friend. |
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| PaULiN0 |
| I'm gonna use my usb stick because i'm not going buy another external drive to back up my back up |
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| DJ RANN |
I know I've posted it a millions times on here, but as a wise (and very famous musican) man said to me after I lost a 5 hour session of him playing:
"There are two types of engineers in this world; Those who have lost data, and those who are about to".
Never were truer words spoken.
I have two drives for backups, which have identical backups on them. So if my main internal drive fails, I've got two copies.
Then, I have the really essential (as Danny Tenaglia put it, "throw yourself off the nearest building if I lose that") data on my dropbox account.
The only you can't replace is the sentimental stuff like photos of you with loved ones, or a few great tracks or mixes that you made. Make sure that is on a DVD or better still tape backup, and send it to your parents/workplace/somewhere else secure. |
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| djshire |
| The HD on my Mini died about two months ago, I had nothing saved. I still don't have everything back that I had for music production, and since the HD has to be taken apart to be able to get anything off of it, I doubt I'll ever see the porn I had on there again. |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by djnitride
RAID 1 is your friend |
In my experience (as a sysadmin) RAID 1 on the average ty commodity raid controller is even LESS reliable than just one drive. You really have to invest in proper server grade stuff to get the benefit. Cheap controllers do all kinds of insane head thrashing that kills drives. |
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