Are you paranoid with backups?

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:14 am

Lately I've been hearing so many horror stories about creators losing their work due to hard drive failures that I've started to back up my project to DVD-RW in the end of each editing day. Are you as worried about losing your data?

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 2:34 am

I haven't gone that far yet, but I do make an exhaustive backup at the end of a project. Sometimes if I get worried, I'll copy an export of a partially completed video over the network to another machine as a temporary backup.

LuluandAuron · Post by **LuluandAuron** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:10 am

My Comp crashes on a regular basis, so everything important is on my slave drive. That way I just unplug the slave an reformat.

~Lulu~

Vancore · Post by **Vancore** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:13 am

Not really, I've only had one bad hard drive since I've had a computer.. but my friend had at least 3 die on him withen the last two years or so. Not sure why, maybe he messes around on them too much.. but because of that I am thinking of investing in a flash drive for backup reasons. I've usually had two HD's which I store some of the same material on most of the time so I guess thats another reason for me being somewhat unconcerned.

So I guess you could say I'm not vigorously trying to backup my data, more on the lax side. I'm more worried about my program not crashing on me and losing an hours worth of editing then a HD failure.

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 3:19 am

well i presonally have had a project that i worked on for roughly a year get lost when i had a hard drive crash, so now i am excessive on backing up...

i have 4 harddrives on my pc, and i keep a copy of all project files on each harddrive, so unless all 4 harddrives go i have a copy!

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:01 am

Janzki wrote:Lately I've been hearing so many horror stories about creators losing their work due to hard drive failures that I've started to back up my project to DVD-RW in the end of each editing day. Are you as worried about losing your data?

I've installed a RAID1 array for my projects and my downloaded AMVs. Consumer SATA RAID5 is becoming more and more feasible so I see myself going to that in the next 1-2 years.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:49 am

I've managed to recover data from a formated hard disk that would refuse to even boot as secondary before the format. So no, i'm generaly not worried about loosing important data such as project files. Things such as amv's I keep dvd back-ups for. Just wish dvd 9's would start being a bit more afordable.

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:04 am

Am I the only person on the internet that's never had a hardrive fail or lost everything I had unwillingly? o__O

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:42 am

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

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:45 am

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.

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