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.
Jeff
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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?
Do you want your only backup to be attached to your computer on the day that your house burns down?
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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.
-mike
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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