How many back up copies? Page 2

Quote: M Lewis @ May 13 2008, 3:38 PM BST

can you upload at a decent file size though? most of my pics are 6meg - i use a web based back up service but back up the full file - if i lost all my pics i wouldnt fancy getting them back at 12kb each!

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Doesn't seem to specify an upload limit (total upload is 1GB -- you have to pay for more storage... or open a second 'free' account, I suppose).

Never used it but know people who have. I'm sure there are other web-based photo storage places around too.

Dan

Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 13 2008, 2:55 PM BST

you should get a MAC, they're much better and never break.

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Ho ho ho.

There speaks a man headed for a catastrophe.

APPLES FALL

Quote: Griff @ May 13 2008, 2:51 PM BST

I recently bought one of these to back up my important files on. I still don't remember to DO the backups very often though... thanks for the reminder. Sorry to hear about your lap top.

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One of my recent call-outs was to a family with such an external USB hard disk.

They had suspected that their computer had problems, so they bought a USB drive like that and copied all their useful data AND THE ONLY COPIES OF FAMILY PHOTOS, onto the USB disk.

Then they wiped & reset the computer to factory state, wiping out all data and photos.

Then before they reloaded the data and photos back onto the computer the USB hard disk was knocked off the table and its read-heads traverse mechanism broke. The disk was completely unusable, I was unable to do anything other than give them the addresses of some data-retrieval firms. For which typical rescues invilving disk dismantling cost tens of thousands of pounds!

So I suspect they never did get their photos back!

My problem with doing so many back ups is......

OK, I'm just lazy. I'm paying dfor that now though, cos I had at least twenty minutes material for my sit com 'A boy named shoe.' and the only copy was on the hard drive. I intended backing it up, but just never got round to it. >_<

Quote: Andrew M Bedell @ May 13 2008, 3:56 PM BST

My problem with doing so many back ups is......

OK, I'm just lazy. I'm paying dfor that now though, cos I had at least twenty minutes material for my sit com 'A boy named shoe.' and the only copy was on the hard drive. I intended backing it up, but just never got round to it. >_<

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If I had a tenner for every weeping customer that I have heard say something like that, I'd be rich!

Quote: billwill @ May 13 2008, 3:48 PM BST

Ho ho ho.

There speaks a man headed for a catastrophe.

APPLES FALL

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*Unlurks to concur. Very loudly*

MY MACBOOK PRO THAT I BOUGHT ON DECEMBER 17th 2007 CRASHED ON ME IN APRIL. THAT'S RIGHT, 4 MONTHS LATER IT CRASHED. THE HARD DRIVE CONKED OUT AND AFTER A SUCCESSION OF FRUSTRATING PHONE CALLS TO THE APPLE CENTRE I FINALLY GOT AN APPOINTMENT AT BRENT CROSS APPLE STORE TO GET THE HARD DRIVE REPLACED.

APPLE MAN: Did you back up your files?

ME: No. I thought MACS.DON'T CRASH!!!!

*Relurks*

Just so you know, I still love my mac 'cause after all said and done..'it just works'. And it's preddy too.

Mine's pretty too!

I hardly ever use it at the moment though...
But I can still gaze at it.

Yes that's fair enough and a wise warning. That's hardly due to having a Mac rather than Windows though is it ?

I keep two copies of my data, one on my Mac itself, one on my external hard drive. It seems unlikely that I would lose both at the same time, except in a house fire or something, in which case I will have worse things to worry about than losing my crappy scripts.

NB If I was about to wipe my Mac hard drive as your customers describe, I'd probably make sure to burn the data from it onto DVDs or something first, in addition to having the MyBook.

>That's hardly due to having a Mac rather than Windows though is it ?

Exactly, but then that message was not about a quote about a Mac anyway.

Apple Macs are no less likely to fail miserably than Windows PCs. If 'your' recovery strategy is "I always use a Mac, so don't need to backup" you are in for an aweful shock one day.

I've seen the awful shock syndrome now (for all sorts of computers) so many times that I have a special phrase for it. I call it "The Day of Realisation". It's the day when an individual really truly realises the meaning of the backup process.

>It seems unlikely that I would lose both at the same time, except in a house fire or something,

You are forgetting an important situation, the case when the computer fails miserably WHILE IT IS DOING A BACKUP. This can take out both your computer AND your single backup device, or your computer has just wiped the backup storage area in preparation for doing a new backup.

SHRUG: Would you trust your bank account to a bank with a backup strategy like yours???

Quote: Griff @ May 13 2008, 4:04 PM BST

I agree, Macs do crash, as I said further up the thread. But they're no more prone to it than PCs, which I think billwill was trying to imply ?

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No more prone, but NO LESS PRONE to fail either.

Hard disks are FRAGILE, & need to be treated like raw eggs.

It is just as easier or easier to drop an Apple Computer as a Windows computer & a drop from 3 or 4 feet will often, indeed probably, make the hard disk unreadable.

Quote: manchester's trendy chorlton @ May 13 2008, 2:55 PM BST

you should get a MAC, they're much better and never break.

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Quote: EllieJP @ May 13 2008, 3:10 PM BST

For someone for who has very little money - but over 8000 photos she wants to back up (that's all I care about) what would you all recommend?

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DVD.

Quote: billwill @ May 13 2008, 3:56 PM BST

Then before they reloaded the data and photos back onto the computer the USB hard disk was knocked off the table and its read-heads traverse mechanism broke.

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Is it evil to laugh at that?

Anyway I've learned my lesson well so I'm going to invest in a LaCie Big Disk Extreme with Triple Interface. Need it before I get Final Cut installed.

1TB of uninterrupted editing fun. Yay me!

Quote: zooo @ May 13 2008, 4:06 PM BST

Mine's pretty too!

I hardly ever use it at the moment though...
But I can still gaze at it.

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Quote: Griff @ May 13 2008, 4:24 PM BST

Note to self. Try not to drop computer.

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Ah yes..I vaguely recall dropping my Mac a couple of days before it crashed!

Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 13 2008, 4:37 PM BST

Need it before I get Final Cut installed.

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More to the point, have you actually PAID for FCP?