Are you paranoid with backups?

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:50 am

bum wrote:Iether someone beyond the clouds has a thing for you or you havent messed with your pc enough to do something that has an 0.006% of screwing up your whole system.

I'm always optimizing my pc, and testing out software. I guess it's number one on that one! o__O

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:09 am

x_rex30 wrote:
devilmaykickass wrote:Am I the only person on the internet that's never had a hardrive fail or lost everything I had unwillingly? o__O
No, I'm one them as well. I guess that makes two of us! o__O

And then there were three?

Well, I've had a video project become corrupt, and I had to start over, but I never lost it completely. I just had to go back and watch it, then duplicate it.

But my hard drive has never wholly crashed, and you think it would've, with some of the nasty stuff my brother has done to it.

To answer the question, though, I don't really bother to back up my projects. I guess...I haven't made anything that would be difficult to make again (ie: custom effects). WMM isn't exactly known for its complexity, you know.

- dj_ultima_the_great

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:12 am

dj_ultima_the_great wrote:To answer the question, though, I don't really bother to back up my projects. I guess...I haven't made anything that would be difficult to make again (ie: custom effects). WMM isn't exactly known for its complexity, you know.

Since when is complexity soely based on effects?

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:16 am

bum wrote:
dj_ultima_the_great wrote:To answer the question, though, I don't really bother to back up my projects. I guess...I haven't made anything that would be difficult to make again (ie: custom effects). WMM isn't exactly known for its complexity, you know.
Since when is complexity soely based on effects?

It isn't, it isn't. That's not what I meant. It was just an example. To be honest, my best video was made with barely anything more than white and black fades.

So, sorry if that sounded...linear...or something. That wasn't my intention.

- dj_ultima_the_great

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 7:44 am

I usually back up my projects to my external HD every couple days or so, just in case. Also, I burn the finished vid to DVD. Never hurts to be safe, anyhow.

jasper-isis · Post by **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.

Org Profile · Post by **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...

Castor Troy · Post by **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.

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.....

staces · Post by **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. ^^;;

Beowulf · Post by **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

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.