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Do it well, do it often.

Postby Tomo » Oct 6th, '11, 13:37



My main server died on Tuesday morning (temperature measurements on both CPUs were going increasingly haywire leading to random shutdown). I should have lost everything, but I didn't. The reason? I did a backup the night before as I always do. That morning, I simply popped the DVD-R into the laptop and carried on.

Sh*t happens. Disasters don't have to.

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby Ant » Oct 6th, '11, 19:25

As always excellent advice (although I favour hard drives to DVD-R).

Too many people lose important data because they never get around to backing up. If you think it will never happen to you, look what happened to Richard Branson on Necker.

If it can happen to the CEO of Virgin, it can certainly happen to you too.

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby Ste Porterfield » Oct 7th, '11, 00:03

Too true.

I've been fortunate enough to have been able to recover from corrupt HDDs but there is no substitute for backing up regularly.

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby Craig Browning » Oct 7th, '11, 16:18

Take from someone that's lost tons of data via two crashed systems -- BACK THINGS UP!

I hate the idea of the Cloud tech for a number of reasons but a secondary hard-drive really doesn't cost that much, even on my limited budget. Install one, schedule a regular back-up routine. . . or buy lots of aspirin, it's your choice :twisted:

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby Stephen Ward » Oct 7th, '11, 17:18

Good advice, i always backup my important data. Now doing my itunes as i type this.

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby Craig Browning » Oct 8th, '11, 16:22

Stephen Ward wrote:Good advice, i always backup my important data. Now doing my itunes as i type this.

:lol: Don't get me started on iTunes

A dear friend of mine in Belgium has somehow managed to send every one of his iTune loads to my SKYPE as part of our conversation thread. He doesn't know how it happened or how to stop it and simply chuckles about how I will know his personality quirks by knowing his music. . . which isn't exactly true given my lack of language knowledge :? (I barely make it through English)

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby V.E. Day » Oct 8th, '11, 20:43

When my Microshite Windows computer died I opened it up and took the big disks out and connected them up to my Linux Machine. All the files, photos, documents and videos are still there and still perfectly usable today.
Most computer problems are caused by the very poor operating system Microshite Windows I reckon.

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Re: Do it well, do it often.

Postby TonyB » Oct 8th, '11, 21:12

My father (in his eighties) gave me some advice on how to back things up. Unfortunately he was a week too late: I lost two books I had nearly finished. It left me with six weeks of twenty hour days to catch up. Now I send myself e-mails of important stuff. I never lose much more than a few days work.

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