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Submitted by Shiraz on Sun, 2011/04/24 - 3:08pm
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Please, please, please remember that you should backup your work regularly (weekly is commonly acceptable) to somewhere other than your hard drive. External drives are good (flash memory has a finite life) but DVDs are ideal if the data is less than 4.7Gb. If you are prepared to lose every story you've written then feel free to ignore this advice. Topsy »
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Funnily enough, especially relevant for me at the moment.
Luckily I keep everything backed up already, but just today I contracted the dreaded System Tool virus and broke a few things trying to fix it, so I had to reinstall my OS without being able to back up my files before hand. I didn't lose anything major, but it's still a bit of a kick in the teeth.
Melanie E.
Just in case
Make yourself a Knoppix or Kubuntu/Ubuntu CD (Not DVD)
If you get a virus you can't clean (and I just removed one today from a customer machine), you can at least boot off of the CD, insert a flash drive, and copy out the important things from your user profile.
Seconded
I just used a Ubuntu disk to save files off of my dad's laptop. Something happened to the File allocation table, and nothing could tell me what the format on the partition was with the exception of one of my Ubuntu disks. I managed to save dad's files, but I'm still not sure of the status of them. I'm still trying to determine if there is a psychical issue with the hard drive or what...
Samantha
Dropbox FTW!
I ran into issues of lost data moving back and forth between my laptop and my desktop. After careful researching, I settled on using Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com) to protect my data. Dropbox is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and several mobile devices. They offer three storage sizes: 2GB, 50GB, and 100GB, with the 2G package free.
With dropbox, I keep a folder tree on both my laptop and my desktop syncronized, and I can access the files via the web as well as recover lost or changed items not more than 30 days old (you can pay for longer backup history).
Hugs,
Kaho
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Hugs,
Kaho
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Smart Ass...
Or, you could do what the uber techno-savvy Geeks do... get yourself a NAS Server.
(Network Access Storage = NAS)
Okay, I have a 2 Terabyte NAS Server that is set up Raid 1.
This means that it has two 1 Terabyte hard drives that are exact mirrors of each other. I have mirrored my files from my computer onto this NAS server. Therefore, I have three copies of every file on my system. Should any single drive fail, I can recover everything. (And I have.)
Holly Wholeman
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.
Yes, the weird author with the boob fetish.