You don't learn your lesson...
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Topic: You don't learn your lesson...
Posted By: WGP guy2
Subject: You don't learn your lesson...
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 2:48pm
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...until it's too late.
Everyone should go back up their hard drives right now...
Mine just crapped out on me, I had about 300 gigs on it, with maybe 1/20th of it backed up. Lost a lot of important stuff...
I will be keeping a small, backup drive in my comp from now on.
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:03pm
I make money off of people like you. 
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:10pm
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People like me know how to diagnose and fix the problem...
I already popped a new drive in there and the new partition has been setting up for over an hour. Unfortunately a lot of important stuff, such as projects that I put on my resume, were there and not backed up.
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:12pm
| Thats why I have a 320 gig underneath my printer that mirrors my drive. So handy. Knock on wood but I've had amazing luck with computers. As a family we've had upwards of 9 or 10 computers and not one of them has had the hard drive fail. |
Posted By: Linus
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 3:19pm
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I have a main 250gb drive, which I've only used 70gb of, and a portable USB drive that is partitioned twice that I put things on that I want saved just in case.
I've been thinking of buying a second drive to set up in a RAID config, but alas, I can't even afford a $40 HD at this point. ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 4:10pm
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Hm... Good call. I would be heartbroken if I lost my photo collection. Backing that up now. Likewise school assignments. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 4:12pm
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Fingers crossed. I have all my music and pr0n on an external. If that goes, I'm screwed. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:37pm
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Backing up all docs and apps now. Nice little reminder.
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:38pm
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I've been using Carbonite until I get off my ass and get a 1.5 terabyte USB harddrive for backups. ------------- 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 5:50pm
| I have yet to really have anything on my computer that needs to be backed up. Just some music and a few writing assignments that have no significance. I want to get an external, I'm just too lazy to buy one. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 8:04pm
^^^Exactly I think it is time though for me to backup. I am thinking of filling up my Microsoft Skydrive. Cloud computing ftw! ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Reb Cpl wrote:Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 08 October 2009 at 9:02pm
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I'm still running on my old 40G drive. Knock on wood big time. Good thing is that all my stuff I'd want to save will actually fit on a Thumb drive. All my games are backed up with either the original CDs and keys or via Steam or D2D. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:19am
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My drives are all only a few years old and still in good shape so I'm not too worried. I tend to keep multiple copies of the important stuff anyway. But if I had the money, I'd have a big RAID 1 NAS with FTP access setup right now so I could get to my stuff anywhere I have an internet connection and I have some redundancy to protect me from drive failures. Things like Skydrive are also an option but I don't like giving my files to other people to hold onto. Twice I've gotten letters from companies saying "Whoops! We lost a laptop with your SSN on it. Sorry about that." and I have not given it out very often (only job/school related situations). If they can't be trusted to guard something like that, I'm not so sure I trust them with my important private files.
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:22am
 Sucks to hear though. How'd it die for you? Almost all my important stuff exists in e-mail attachments and a number of other storage mediums. Everything else is on my RAID 5 array. But I do want to image my laptop soon, it's not showing any signs of being in trouble, but crap happens. Everyone should have some form of a SMART monitor on their computer as a heads up. It won't predict the future, but it will let you know usually if your drive is at risk of failing in a non-recoverable way (i.e: crashing platters, failed motors, etc). ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: Frozen Balls
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 2:23am
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Since the start of school this year, I have been backing up all my work onto its own flash drive. I would probably jump out of my window if I lost all that work. (10mb of .doc files in a month so far) ------------- 
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 3:43am
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Question. HOW?
I tried the simple XP click on backup thing, but now it's telling me my Terrabyte drive can't take >4gb backup files. I'm trying to backup around 200gb of info..... KBK |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 4:02am
Sounds like it's Fat32 if I had to take a guess. Can't take files that large, reformat it. Can anyone confirm? |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 7:27am
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Yeah, FAT32 can only take files smaller than 4 GB.
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 12:37pm
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SO I need to copy all the info off my 1TB then reformat it?
Serious? |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 1:00pm
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I can't imagine why you formatted it in FAT32 in the first place, unless you were using it to transfer files between OS X and Windows. My suggestion would be to partition it (create a second NTSF partition), copy everything from FAT32 there, then extend the partition over the whole drive. Can't remember if Windows will actually let you do that, I know OS X will, but that won't help you for NTSF. What files do you have that are larger than 4 GB? *EDIT* Re-read your other post. XP is saving files in greater than 4 GB chunks? That's weird, I don't know how Windows backs up stuff though. Personally, I would simply copy stuff over. If you're creating tons of documents/files every day, it may not be worth it, but there are other backup utilities that are probably a lot more flexible than the Windows one out there. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 2:46pm
I don't think you can do it in XP but Vista does let you shrink and extend partitions. Other apps can do it for you too. That method should work fine unless the OS is on the FAT32 partition. Then you would have to do a reinstall (to have the OS on a new filesystem) and you could do the partition shenanigans through the installer for Vista but I think you're SOL for XP in that case. If possible, backup to another device or drive and then copy it back when you have the TB drive sorted out. If you do need to reinstall the OS, make sure you have the drivers and all that crap handy so you don't have to search for everything later. I recommend putting the OS on a partition of its own and keeping your data separate. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 09 October 2009 at 3:12pm
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Windows back-up is supposed to allow for a number of mediums, there should be a way you can scale the size of the files being created, or you can use presets like CD and DVD for splitting files. Alternatively, if you have room for everything on your TB drive on your desktop, you can make an image of your drive, compress it and store it on your desktop, then reformat and apply the image back to the drive. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 3:53am
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Ironically enough, just a few days after I mention my distrust for data security on clouds, this article about the Sidekick's cloud issues pops up in my cnet feed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10372521-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10372521-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 TL;DR - Sidekick phones store most of their data in a cloud, the cloud screwed up, many people may never recover their contact lists or other data that was "on their phone". I can only imagine my reaction if I had all my school projects on a cloud that had this issue. ------------- oreomann33: Everybody invades Poland Rofl_Mao: And everyone eats turkey Me: But only if they're hungary Mack: Yeah but hungary people go russian through their food and end up with greece on everyth |
Posted By: ParielIsBack
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 8:59am
I don't know -- I think in general cloud computer is the direction we're headed, and that it's not any less secure than the methods we use now. The fact that people can't be bothered to back stuff up is worrying though, as it should be. ------------- BU Engineering 2012 |
Posted By: mod98commando
Date Posted: 11 October 2009 at 2:42pm
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Cloud computing definitely seems like it will be standard in the future but it's not perfect. You can just as easily lose data that is located at your own house but at least you have control of it there.
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