
Qwerty
New member
A cautionary tale..........
I back up everything religiously. I label it. I mark it with a date.
But now and then I keep some older stuff archived on a secondary hard disk to keep it handy.
And I forget to burn it to CD.
And it has the same name and date stamp as some other similar files that I do have burned to CD.
Months pass.
I run out of disk space.
I burn more backups.
I see this old directory.
I look in my old CD's -- see the same file and date stamps.
I delete the directory.
I have disk space.
I am happy.
Days pass.
My client comes in.
Wants to keep an old take and not re-record a new version.
I have to explain I no longer have it.
I get a red face.
And egg dribbles down my face.
A lesson learnt.....
FWIW.
Q.
I back up everything religiously. I label it. I mark it with a date.
But now and then I keep some older stuff archived on a secondary hard disk to keep it handy.
And I forget to burn it to CD.
And it has the same name and date stamp as some other similar files that I do have burned to CD.
Months pass.
I run out of disk space.
I burn more backups.
I see this old directory.
I look in my old CD's -- see the same file and date stamps.
I delete the directory.
I have disk space.
I am happy.
Days pass.
My client comes in.
Wants to keep an old take and not re-record a new version.
I have to explain I no longer have it.
I get a red face.
And egg dribbles down my face.

FWIW.
