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| just so you know I'm not immune to this sort of thing by jeep 09/30/2012, 10:59am PDT | ||||
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| For the second time in my life I lost an old pc without backups. I build new ones every 2-3 years and so I rarely lose the one I just built, it's usually the older one where I buy a big drive and connect usb disks to it and use it as a fileserver for my slowly-being-digitized CD collection. That happened again, but this time since I put an SSD in the new PC (which has already failed and been replaced, but I expected that so it also has a second drive (sata) with automated weekly backups), I didn't think I'd have room to move important data over and just left it on the old one.
The old one had 2 1tb drives in it and the key data in question was copied from one to the other. That backup target started making clicking noises last Dec and basically even though I have tons of usb drives and such I just copied everything off that disk, put it offline and didn't think to change the backup targets, but get this: I literally was going to the store today to get 2 USB drives to back up that box (and get ready to maybe replace it) and move my copy of terriers and a couple old bbc series onto its own drive to start one that's television-specific. When the new drive stopped working with no warning last night, complacency cost me: - a decade of tax returns and related data - pdf copies of paystubs and other job-related shit - a folder with maybe 15 years of "hilarious" animated gifs - the install of eclipse I've been using to mess around with java for the last 5 years - the one working install of vc++ with hl2 source I had (with a couple practice mods, no big loss) - a roguelike I wrote from scratch in python 3 years ago The job and tax shit is a small inconvenience. I scanned in what I didn't receive electronically because I basically move from city to city every year or two and don't like to keep going back to storage to dig out these old records The source code I'd made a conscious decision not to back it up anywhere because I didn't care if I lost it but the settings...oh god the settings :( It's nothing compared to what I lost the first time, which included pretty much everything I'd written from 9-23 both for school and for publication, including hand-coded book reports I'd kept since they were on c64 floppies. Anyway go buy a usb drive or get a box.net account and make a list of shit that would inconvenience you to lose and schedule a cron job to copy it over there every week. |
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just so you know I'm not immune to this sort of thing by 09/30/2012, 10:59am PDT  I should mention by 09/30/2012, 11:00am PDT Re: I should mention by 09/30/2012, 5:29pm PDT |
