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YOU! Yes, You! Remember to back up your important files...
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| Swamper |
I've been pretty good about this over the years but recently as I was consolidating a bunch of old hard drives I noticed the drive with all my music on it was no longer showing up in Windows. Totally my fault, as it is an old drive from about 2006 or earlier. So, I look through all my drives/laptops and realize I only had about HALF of the stuff elsewhere. I knew I wasn't that careless but after a couple of weeks I just accepted that I'd have to dish out some $$ to restore that data.
Fast forward to last night, I have a 1TB external drive from 2009 that I used to back things up to. The unit itself powers up but I don't hear the drive spinning.... ... there goes that last hope. I open the thing up and pull out the drive and put it in another case and it works! Also has my 80+GB Essential Mix collection on there too... . So, I got everything back and I'm happy as a pig in .
Lesson learned - back up your stuff to at least 1 external device and back up your REALLY important documents to Google Drive/etc.
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| Floorfiller |
| i'm kind of over hording things like music on drives. what's the point? i mean it doesn't sound like you were really listening to that stuff right? i'm good with just getting a few albums that i'm actually going to listen to every once in a while. |
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| Swamper |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
i'm kind of over hording things like music on drives. what's the point? i mean it doesn't sound like you were really listening to that stuff right? i'm good with just getting a few albums that i'm actually going to listen to every once in a while. |
A lot of the music I have here I went out of my way since 1999 to collect... live sets that are otherwise very difficult to come across. I don't have much from 2007 onwards.... it is all the 1994-2007 clips/vids/etc. that I would never be able to find again (also because I didn't take a catalogue of all the stuff I have in the first place, so I didn't even know what was missing lol).
I also used to run, for years, a streaming set up so that friends could log in and listen to stuff at work or wherever. This is before smart phones became a thing of course :) |
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| sensorium |
learned my lesson a few years ago. I only had one drive for everything and never took the time to test it for errors. when warnings started showing up, I had time to save most of the important personal files but the mixes were lost and so were all the mediocre works I did in college. of course i didn't give a about the latter but the mixes were a great treasure to have.
lucky for me I had about 15% of the mixes in a hard drive in mexico. but the loss itself was significant and now looking for mixes can be tiresome.
today my main rig has two hard drives and an SSD for the OS. Every 6 months I insert a third drive to backup the backup of the main storage.
I'm still skeptical about the cloud movement with the privacy concerns going around. I have the essential files in a USB drive as well.
a suggested extra measure is to have a backup somewhere else in case of a fire. but let's face it, if you're that unlucky, it just means it sucks to be you. |
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| Swamper |
I use the cloud to store important files as well but I store them in an encrypted 'container' first with TrueCrypt
Unfortunately, TrueCrypt stopped being updated a month ago so I'll have to find something else ...but the software is free and still works, so, I still have a few years there.
http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ |
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| planetaryplayer |
| i lost my music folder on 2 occasions, and my desktop went down so now all my files are on my macbook and lacie... |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| I have like almost 7 years of photos on a file server that hasn't been turned on in over a year now... :S I am scared to turn it on as it is filled with dust and it's a RAID5 that is really finicky on a old ass controller. |
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