bobdea Posted January 15, 2007 Report Posted January 15, 2007 I lost a drive two nights ago during a backup thus trashing the first disk and there was a pretty sizable data loss on the second drive because I had it set to delete directories prior to overwriting them and it just happened to be wiriting the users directory when the ****e hit the fan. so I am really upset and I remember that I keep a spare that I update only once or so every couple months! yeah, it pays off to be neurotic about your data! years ago when I was using NT4 I'd have to back up to zips, that SUCKED! thank god for cheap external hard drives! Quote
Justin A. Posted January 15, 2007 Report Posted January 15, 2007 Good thing indeed. I picked up a 450gig External Drive about a month ago, and have been backing up all my photos weekly ever since. If my internal drive crashes, I'm screwed because I want to keep all my music and most use photos handy without plugging in the ex drive . Quote
Derf Posted January 15, 2007 Report Posted January 15, 2007 I have a RAID 1 server at home for my backups (and my GF's) AND I burn a backup DVD that I bring to my father's house regularely. I lost a full 30GB drive once (IBM Deathstar), so now I am anal about my backups too. Quote
bobdea Posted January 16, 2007 Author Report Posted January 16, 2007 hah! I got the drive to mount when I started machine in target disk mode, a nice feature that if PC vendors other than apple supported it would save a huge amount of headaches for people as well as it would make upgrades easier as well so now I am at zero data loss! Quote
LeeW Posted January 16, 2007 Report Posted January 16, 2007 you guys are making me cringe!!! Im trying to save up some money to buy a hard drive external so I can make back up of this PC. Just end up spending it on off road motorcycling. yeeesh. Quote
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