ido1957
9K Gold Member
Yes, yes I did... friendly reminder to do your regular backup. You'll thank me for it when your laptop or PC dies/burns/gets stolen/generally craps out/etc...
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Greg_L
Banned
I have. I do it like once a week. Thanks for the reminder. 
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outerspacezoo
New member
too bad i didn't have this reminded about 5 months ago... when my macbook fell and the hard disk froze and died. i had all of my daw projects, music files...everything on it. i lost it all.
today, i find myself re-recording all of those songs since most were still not completely finished and there were several things i wanted to remix. had to do vocals, tracking and mixing all over again. it was a nightmare.
today, i find myself re-recording all of those songs since most were still not completely finished and there were several things i wanted to remix. had to do vocals, tracking and mixing all over again. it was a nightmare.
joeym
New member
Guess an external drive as back-up is always the way to go for audio.
rayc
retroreprobate
Backed up all my music projects to a diff comp & external HDD. I plan to burn the bundles to data DVD next week as well.
It also helps that I don't have my recording PC anywhere near the internet.
It also helps that I don't have my recording PC anywhere near the internet.
VomitHatSteve
Hat STYLE. Not contents.
I live on the edge. Backups are for those who aren't awesome enough to re-create their life's work when their single point-of-failure inevitably fails.
...I should really get an extrnal drive already.
...I should really get an extrnal drive already.
kcearl
I see deaf people
I do it once a year..I'll count any loss as part of the learning process 
PoeticIntensity
MagicJones.com (is a website)
I don't believe in backups anymore... I'm kind of a geek, so I'm slightly paranoid about my data... I have a server which is backed up nightly to another computer, both of which contain more than a terabyte of data going back 6 years. (photos, videos, music, DAW stuff, journals, yeah... you get it)
a month ago, one of my server HDs began the "click of death". I immediately ordered another one, so I could rebuild the array from my backups.
3 days later (one day before my new hard drive arrived) a similar hard drive began the click of death ON MY BACKUP SERVER....
Yeah... I lost 6 years of data. I'm waiting now to save up so a professional can charge me thousands of dollars to hopefully recover the array.... ugh...
*note* I was kidding about not believing in backups anymore, but evidently, ya can't rely on em'. *sigh*
a month ago, one of my server HDs began the "click of death". I immediately ordered another one, so I could rebuild the array from my backups.
3 days later (one day before my new hard drive arrived) a similar hard drive began the click of death ON MY BACKUP SERVER....
Yeah... I lost 6 years of data. I'm waiting now to save up so a professional can charge me thousands of dollars to hopefully recover the array.... ugh...
*note* I was kidding about not believing in backups anymore, but evidently, ya can't rely on em'. *sigh*
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mattdee1
Active member
The downside of the digital age is the fragility of stored works and memories.
Just last week, I had my system completely eff up. When I turned on the computer, out of nowhere, the damn thing started asking for a password which I have never set. I tried all the obvious stuff, like "just leave the PW field blank", "log in as guest", log in as "administrator", "start in safe mode", blah blah. Stupid POS wouldn't let me log in for nothin' without this mysterious password. I suspect some kind of malware, because the PC was acting very strangely in the days leading up to this.
Luckily, I was able to recover my data by simply doing a fresh install of Windows on a different disk, and setting the old one up as slave... but it really does get you worrying. This is my 3rd brush with near catastrophe in as many years. I'm getting awfully sick of it, to be honest.
What is this click of death? I realize it must be a funny noise that portends the imminent failure of your disk, but what does it sound like? Is it really obvious?
Just last week, I had my system completely eff up. When I turned on the computer, out of nowhere, the damn thing started asking for a password which I have never set. I tried all the obvious stuff, like "just leave the PW field blank", "log in as guest", log in as "administrator", "start in safe mode", blah blah. Stupid POS wouldn't let me log in for nothin' without this mysterious password. I suspect some kind of malware, because the PC was acting very strangely in the days leading up to this.
Luckily, I was able to recover my data by simply doing a fresh install of Windows on a different disk, and setting the old one up as slave... but it really does get you worrying. This is my 3rd brush with near catastrophe in as many years. I'm getting awfully sick of it, to be honest.
What is this click of death? I realize it must be a funny noise that portends the imminent failure of your disk, but what does it sound like? Is it really obvious?
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K-dub
Well-known member
I've got redundant backup going, but it still didn't stop a couple projects of my from going corrupt.
Over a thousand man hours down the tubes due to a bad Cakewalk file format (the .cwb bundle file).
The good news is I did have acceptable mixes of the lost projects ... still ... I'm a bit sore over it. I hate losing projects like that.
Do everything right, get fucked anyways.
Over a thousand man hours down the tubes due to a bad Cakewalk file format (the .cwb bundle file).
The good news is I did have acceptable mixes of the lost projects ... still ... I'm a bit sore over it. I hate losing projects like that.
Do everything right, get fucked anyways.
rayc
retroreprobate
The year before last I downloaded an updated version of a media player. When installing it asked fo permission to link to all sorts of media - I clicked OK. It linked to everything & deleted the wave/audio files to an 1/2 a dozen projects. I also had so useful mixes else where BUT was gutted.
I now keep my DAW very isolated (almost from me). I've been laughed at before for being OTT on this but a couple of HDD failures, a few viruses that lead to reformatting HDDs and the odd renegade download have left me a little paranoid. in the words of the mini master:"What you talkin' about Willis?"
I now keep my DAW very isolated (almost from me). I've been laughed at before for being OTT on this but a couple of HDD failures, a few viruses that lead to reformatting HDDs and the odd renegade download have left me a little paranoid. in the words of the mini master:"What you talkin' about Willis?"
PoeticIntensity
MagicJones.com (is a website)
Yup.... Here's a youtube video of what it sounds like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8S5F2Bd7uA
*not* a good sound. It's a physical malfunction of the drive which is a very difficult (if at all possible) problem to solve. Usually requires a professional.
heatmiser
mr. green christmas
Wow...that all sounds like a huge PITA.
I have my tapes and my CDs...extremely reliable. I never store anything of any value on a computer. Not that I have anything of great value anyway...it's very liberating
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I have my tapes and my CDs...extremely reliable. I never store anything of any value on a computer. Not that I have anything of great value anyway...it's very liberating
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killthepixelnow
Do it right or dont do it
No problem here, with a Mac don't have to think about those things. It came with a software that works silently and if you need to recover something, you just enter the Time Machine, just that easy. Apple computers are the shit.
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mattdee1
Active member
Hmm.. luckily I've not heard that sound before.
Is that little mechanism tapping out "pwn3d!" in morse code?