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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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 Posted - 24 January 2003 : 18:08:14
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Today I was looking for a photoshop image that I made sometime last summer. I got a little desperate when I found that it was not on my hard drive.
My primary backup location is Ls3k.com. So I wipped out CuteFTP and started pooring through folders of data. No There!
My secondary backup is a grey iomega zip disk. I doug that out and let Windows search it. Nothing. (By now I'm pulling my hair out)
So my next option was another web server where I knew I had put the *.gif version of the image in question. So I checked that . . . nothing
Finally I got out my yellow ultra backup iomega zip disk. This is the disk that I put stuff that absolutly cant be lost on. I cary it with me most of the time and hardly ever put it into a computer. I didn't think it was going to be on there, but it was. I feel very very luck right now.
So does anyone else have a good importance of backup story? |
 Nathan Bales
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TestMagic
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 24 January 2003 : 18:53:18
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I'll never forget my first lesson on the importance of saving. It was about six hours before an eight-page paper was due, and I rushed to the computer lab to bang it out as quickly as I could. This was in the days of orange ASCII characters, and no hard drives, and I knew almost nothing of computers. Fortunately, the muses were smiling on me, and I was getting through the paper in record time (but I hadn't saved it). I was on page seven, and the end was sight. I was happy that it was almost done, and an hour or two before the deadline. I would be able to eat before class! I wasn't even paying attention when another student got up and walked behind the computers and tripped over the power cord to my computer and a couple others, knocking out our power. 
My data was lost, and there was no way to recover it. It was then that I learned the rule, don't save if you're ready to redo what you would lose by not saving. Or something like that. |
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Doug G
Support Moderator
USA
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Posted - 24 January 2003 : 19:30:24
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Years ago at a major Fortune 500 firm, I maintained a removable disk drive that stored all the image layout files for the internals of the VLSI chips they manufactured. The disk crashed. The guy had been doing backups religiously to his reel-reel tape drive, but guess what, over the years, they had never verified the backups worked!
When it came time to restore, none of the tapes would read. It turned out there was a problem in the tape controller that was writing garbage backups (luckily CDC only was responsible for the disk drive and nothing else on the system!).
6 months later the guy was still trying to figure out a way to recover the files. This was a major hit to their manufacturing process.
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seven
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 24 January 2003 : 19:41:16
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We once lost an entire projects worth of design drawings, the backup admin said the drive was always skipped over during backups because files were open.
Since the project was across multiple plants worldwide, people were working on files 24/7... so nothing ever got backed up. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 25 January 2003 : 09:10:21
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| All I can say is thank you. You just reminded me that I need to make a backup of my backup (stored on a 120GB external HDD) at work and take the new backup-CDs home. That way I'll minimize the risk that I somehow end up without a backup if one of the two gets lost or broken. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 25 January 2003 : 09:20:39
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| I lost a 200 page software manual I had been writing, I had been doing some amendments on my laptop while working abroad, saved it to Zipdisk, when I got back to the UK and loaded it on to my desktop overwriting the copy there I discovered that the Zipdisk had got corrupted, so took my laptop out only to discover the HD had failed on then the way back :( |
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seven
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 25 January 2003 : 10:15:21
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Remember when HD's failed when placing them on the metal trays in airplanes?
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Originally posted by HuwR
I lost a 200 page software manual I had been writing, I had been doing some amendments on my laptop while working abroad, saved it to Zipdisk, when I got back to the UK and loaded it on to my desktop overwriting the copy there I discovered that the Zipdisk had got corrupted, so took my laptop out only to discover the HD had failed on then the way back :(
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