Just a friendly reminder

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Damned if I do
Quit putting it off! Back up your data now! And verify the backup is good before you delete!

That is all........
 
danny.guitar said:
I don't feel like it though...
I thought that before the last time I had a hard drive die on me.

This post is one of those so-called "words to the wise."

If your hard drive crashes tomorrow, I will have no sympathy! :D
 
I swapped out my TiVo hard drive this past week because it was getting noisy and acting a little quirky. While working on that (several evenings of programming to fix bugs in the software I was using to expand the drive to make it work correctly in Mac OS X instead of just Linux), I noticed that one of my servers had a drive going south.

Nothing important lost (and I have backups of everything important anyway), but the server was down for 24 hours cloning the ^(@*&$^#*& drive.

So I was using external hard drive cases with the TiVo drives to hook them up via FireWire. As I finished with the TiVo drives, before doing the server clone, I plugged the original drives (the ones actually in the external cases) back in just to make sure things were working. One of them didn't spin up. After a power cycle, it spun up, but at that point, it quickly made my "this drive needs to be cloned" list.

So instead of just cloning the TiVo hard drive, I now had to clone THREE hard drives. Oh, and during the process of doing this, I had a data corruption glitch on my old laptop that caused it to not boot. I hooked it up to the other laptop and got things fixed up (again, no important data lost), but yikes. That's four drive problems in a single weekend.

Oh, yeah, and then I turned on my two year old PowerMac G5 (quad) and the power supply blew. They're sending somebody to replace the power supply later this week.... :)

Moral of the story: BACK UP YOUR DATA. I have backups for every one of the drives that I had problems with (except the TiVo, though I do still have the original TiVo hard drive, so I could at least get back up and running, albeit without recently recorded content even if the drive died completely). If I did not have most of this stuff backed up, I would have been utterly in a state of panic for several days straight!

Moral #2: Never let me within a thousand feet of your hardware. If there is even the smallest hardware flaw, it will spontaneously manifest itself as I approach. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
 
MadAudio said:
Quit putting it off! Back up your data now! And verify the backup is good before you delete!

That is all........
Nothing digital exists at all unless it exists in two places!
 
drstawl said:
Nothing digital exists at all unless it exists in two places!
"One zero zero one zero zero one
SOS
One zero zero one zero zero
In distress"

;)
 
MadAudio said:
Quit putting it off! Back up your data now! And verify the backup is good before you delete!

That is all........

But I don't even have a computer yet. I guess it still wouldn't hurt. But I don't know - re-writing all my ideas into a second notebook seems like a LOT of work. But if you insist....
 
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