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The importance of backing up your data.

Post by Jeff White » Sun Dec 21, 2008 9:33 pm

Well, it finally happened this afternoon. I had a hard drive die on me. My 500GB internal drive of the G5, which is partitioned in half, shit the bed. It's the second drive in there and separate from the System drive.

I had my iTunes library on there (125GB), all of my recording projects (200GB), backups of photos, bill receipts, software from the last 3 years, all of the multitrack files that I found online last January, etc. I think that there was like 22GB free between both partitions.

Luckily I have everything backed up. Everything. This could have been a total disaster.

So this is a friendly reminder to back up your important data!

I follow Joel Hamilton's advice and keep three backups of everything important and keep one of the three backups in a separate location.

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Post by DryCounty » Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:26 pm

Well that's good news there! Three backups is ideal but two is more than enough so long as you stick to a schedule, say weekly, and move one of them offsite once the backup completes. I have plenty of clients that do that and sleep so much easier because of it.

Do you want your only backup to be attached to your computer on the day that your house burns down?
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Post by dynomike » Thu Dec 25, 2008 7:17 pm

wowza

i used to have the hard drives at the studio set up for raid mirroring but the performance was really, really bad. so, next year i'm going to recommend that each client brings their own portable drive for daily backups. doesn't really take that long... and it could save the day!

glad to hear everythings' ok jeff.

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Post by joel hamilton » Fri Dec 26, 2008 4:19 pm

Wow,
I am really glad that all my annoying, mean-dad-esque ranting actually helped someone!!!! :)

Glad.

I need to follow my own advice a bit more at home... I do it at the studio, but I dont think I have backed up my iTunes library in a while... heh...um... :roll:
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Post by @?,*???&? » Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:58 pm

joel hamilton wrote:Wow,
I am really glad that all my annoying, mean-dad-esque ranting actually helped someone!!!! :)
Man, I'm glad you're the annoying one- I was beginning to think it was me!
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Post by jakeao » Sat Dec 27, 2008 7:11 pm

Man, I'm glad you're the annoying one- I was beginning to think it was me!
Don't feel left out, you're still a pain in the ass. :)
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