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mike wightman

mike wightman

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A couple of years ago my computer broke.

I thought I had lost all my files, CT+, ship combat ideas, campaign notes and lots more.

For some reason I kept the hard drive, and a friend of mine has just done some computer wizardry to recover the stuff I thought lost.

Happy is an understatement :)
 
Flash Drive.

Everything backed up.

And also duplicated on my laptop.

But since I write books, this redundancy is essential! The flashdrive is essential, I keep it on my keychain, if I get burgled and loose my PC and laptop, I still have everything I've written over the last couple of years with me at all times :)

Paranoid? Me? No - just cautious ... :)
 
Naa... I've just got 2 identical flash drives.

Reason? One is back-up, the other is main memory.

That's right... I've got all my files on a flash (and not in the computer), and plug it in to access them. I just found it more convenient that way.

I don't know why, I just do.
 
So, there's a house fire in the middle of the night. Do you run into your home office to grab your flash drive before jumping out the window? I back up key files to a hidden part of my website. Off-site backups accessable anywhere in the world.
 
Hemdian said:
So, there's a house fire in the middle of the night. Do you run into your home office to grab your flash drive before jumping out the window? I back up key files to a hidden part of my website. Off-site backups accessable anywhere in the world.
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...to anyone with Hacking-2 or greater. ;)

Remember flash drives and DVDs are no more immortal than hard drives - less so, by all accounts. There's no perfect back-up.
 
I've got over 40Gb of graphics/animation stuff, which is a bit big for flash, DVD, or online storage...

My PC has a mirrored RAID, which I occasionally backup to an external HD.

It must be getting on for 10yrs since I lost any data, which probably means I'm about due...
 
External HD, and as soon as I can afford a second one, they'll start being in a rotation between my desk and the fire safe...
 
BlackBat242 said:
Naa... I've just got 2 identical flash drives.

Reason? One is back-up, the other is main memory.

That's right... I've got all my files on a flash (and not in the computer), and plug it in to access them. I just found it more convenient that way.

I don't know why, I just do.
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Yup! Those flash drives... aka "USB pen drives" are so damn convenient. There's little reason not to back up any more.

OK OK I lie. There is still ONE MAJOR REASON: "Eternal Procrastinator"
 
Icosahedron said:
...to anyone with Hacking-2 or greater. ;)

Remember flash drives and DVDs are no more immortal than hard drives - less so, by all accounts. There's no perfect back-up.
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The perfect backup.... is data redundantly backed-up multiple times.

In case your backup fails, you always have your backup-of-the-backup. And in case that one fails too, you also have....

Of course, this is the rightful path to insanity.
 
Maladominus said:
The perfect backup.... is data redundantly backed-up multiple times.

In case your backup fails, you always have your backup-of-the-backup. And in case that one fails too, you also have....

Of course, this is the rightful path to insanity.
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Beats the other path to insanity if you ever lose your primary and backup (been there done that) :D

(I want a new Mac with the automatic wireless harddrive for (secondary) backup in a safe buried in the backyard, a true Time Capsule ;) )
 
dean said:
External HD, and as soon as I can afford a second one, they'll start being in a rotation between my desk and the fire safe...
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Get one of those USB converter boxes that allows you to plug in an internal hard drive and get several used hard drives on e-bay. A computer tips newsletter I get every day has been selling them for under 20 bucks with free shipping (to USA atleast). I got a 200 GB hard drive on e-bay for under 20 bucks including shipping about 2 months ago. Smaller sizes are going for peanuts, often several at a time. That is a lot cheaper than buying multiple external hard drives even when you take into account buying multiple drives as a precaution against failure.

Online storage is great, but the monthly fees add up over time unless you are a professional user type. For home use just do a good backup 2 to 4 times a year on an old drive and give it to a trustworty friend to keep for you away from your residence and you do the same for him.
 
fire ... oh no...

dean said:
External HD, and as soon as I can afford a second one, they'll start being in a rotation between my desk and the fire safe...
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Exactly, keep stuff in a fire safe, I do... or hey, move to California where construction requires fire systems in homes not just commercial.

Having a bit more than a couple flash drives...or more. :rofl:

But if its just a crash monitor or motherboard, I did noticed a cable vendor providing external hard drive "cable" connectors to a usb port.
 
Well, one of my flash drives is in my bedroom, and the other is next to the computer... which is near the front door, so I don't think I'll have to detour much to grab it.
 
I have a friend who was terrible about backing up his files in college. I got him a flash drive and started just backing them up myself for him every week (we were in the same engineering groups, I had reason to fear his data loss). His laptop was stolen right before finals. When he got a new one I told him to bring it and the flash drive by so I could get him up and running. He told me he couldn't, the flash drive was in the bag with the laptop that got stolen
 
If not even the banks and DOD can keep hackers out of their systems, putting my data on any on-line hosting site or hooking up to any remote-access service is the equivalent of posting everything I have on Wiki... in a public-access folder.


On another note, I just got junk-mail thing from Qwest (AT&T successor company here), offering "free on-line back-up service".

Yep... 2G* of back-up space, free.

I have >3.6 G on my flash drive.
:rolleyes:

*more space available for a fee
 
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