Are you paranoid with backups?

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Postby jasper-isis » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:51 am

This reminds me... I really need to back up all of the big Animasia stuff, lest I be hit with the Instrumentality Hard Drive Failure Curse...

I've never lost a hard drive before, but I can't be lucky forever. And this one has seen a good amount of abuse by me, heh...

As for being paranoid, I save my project file after practically every edit, even though I've got auto-save on. And I use "Save A Copy..." multiple times for all my videos, though I do that mainly to experiment with some editing that would interfere with a large chunk of the editing that I already had.
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:06 am

Nope, not really. But of course I tend to get all my work done on an AMV in as short a stretch of time as possible, too.

Although I've had some bad old hard drives that gradually got corrupted, I've never had one outright fail on me without getting my files out first...
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Postby Castor Troy » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:06 am

I lost everything on my old maxtor drive 3 years ago when I accidently got the klez from opening emails from the worst email program on earth - outlook. :x

Now that I have Western Digital drives and I don't use outlook anymore, I haven't really had a problem ever since. Although I'm getting paranoid now and want to invest in an external drive..... :oops:
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Postby staces » Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:42 am

I've lost over a dozen projects before and had my computer decide to randomly dump all of my clips out of the maker (which sucks when your scene detection/create clips tool doesn't work and you spent weeks doing it manually). . . And this is going to sound kinda crazy/corny but I take it as a sign that the AMV just wasn't meant to be made and after a bit of being upset I move on. ^^;;
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Postby Beowulf » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:04 pm

I've never had a hard drive crash in my entire video editing "career". I defrag my HD every day and scandisk them every 2-3 days :up:

That said, I've started to burn DVD copies of the master huffy files so I don't have to carry around 15 gigs of otherwise useless master copies.
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Postby Ileia » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:12 pm

Well, considering how bitchy my computer is (and I can't afford a brand new one), I guess, yeah. I'm paranoid with back-ups.

I have everything backed up to DVD,
I have it copied to our home file server,
And my boyfriend has a partition on his drive that he lets me keep files on.

So, at any one time, I have at least 4 copies of important files. The only thing I don't really make certain to keep files of are .vob's. I mean, they can be ripped in a matter of minutes, so it'd just be waisted space.
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Postby Tsunami Jones » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:49 pm

I'm a bit paranoid about losing project files, so I make back-up copies of those. I've had premiere crash while saving, completely obliterating the save file, and every backup project file in the project archive.
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Postby godix » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:50 pm

I have a fairly simple backup plan. It's called 'local'. When I'm done with a video I upload it to local and if my HD ever crashes I can download it again.
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Postby SuperFusion » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:59 pm

ummm..... No. :|
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Postby Castor Troy » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:12 pm

godix wrote:I have a fairly simple backup plan. It's called 'local'. When I'm done with a video I upload it to local and if my HD ever crashes I can download it again.


ummm, I think this thread about the creation process before the video is done or something..
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Postby Castor Troy » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:13 pm

Jasper-Isis wrote:This reminds me... I really need to back up all of the big Animasia stuff, lest I be hit with the Instrumentality Hard Drive Failure Curse...

I've never lost a hard drive before, but I can't be lucky forever. And this one has seen a good amount of abuse by me, heh...

As for being paranoid, I save my project file after practically every edit, even though I've got auto-save on. And I use "Save A Copy..." multiple times for all my videos, though I do that mainly to experiment with some editing that would interfere with a large chunk of the editing that I already had.


ctrl+s should be second nature now. :)
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:28 pm

Castor Troy wrote:
ctrl+s should be second nature now. :)


Hah, I'd be surprised if it isn't for everyone, especially the premiere users here!

...and yet, far too many times have I wasted between 5 minutes and 2 hours work thanks to forgetting that ctrl+s :|
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Postby Beowulf » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:24 pm

Otohiko wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:
ctrl+s should be second nature now. :)


Hah, I'd be surprised if it isn't for everyone, especially the premiere users here!

...and yet, far too many times have I wasted between 5 minutes and 2 hours work thanks to forgetting that ctrl+s :|


set your premiere to auto save every 2 minutes, and to save 50 versions of your project.

It never fails :up:
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:27 pm

Otohiko wrote:
Castor Troy wrote:ctrl+s should be second nature now. :)

Hah, I'd be surprised if it isn't for everyone, especially the premiere users here!

I don't think I've ever used ctrl+s. Auto-save, in addition to Premiere almost never crashing, is enough.
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Postby Knowname » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:02 pm

I trust my computer and therefore it loves me :P . Trust stems from a cheap Deathstar HD that has been running for 2+ years!! I have my old backups from my old hd, I only backup after I finish a video and my CDs tend to fail more often then my Maxtor hard drives. FYI, Maxtor are the CHEAPEST hdds on the planet... I still got my 8gb from '95.
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