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Post by alloydog on Feb 15, 2020 0:44:19 GMT -9
OK, class, hands up how many of you keep a back-up of your works on another device, such as another PC/laptop or external hard-drive? OK, keep your hands up if you also use a second back-up, such as Google Drive? I sort of use the first method. However, just recently, I have been working on a 1:100 th WWII Soviet ZiS-3 76 mm anti-tank gun. Because I was doing it when ever I had some time, such as running SW tests at work, all the files were on a USB-stick. Just the USB-stick... Thursday night, at home, I had finished the B&W line drawings, ready for test print and build. just before going to bed, I packed my bag for work in the morning. I couldn't find the USB-stick. I looked everywhere, no joy. Well, I figured, it will turn up, I'll look again tomorrow, when I get home. I have now looked everywhere, even in the rubbish bin, underneath and behind furniture (in case the cats played with it), but no, nowhere to be found. I've checked all pockets in clothing and my back-pack. Nope. It's not my livelihood, it was only about six hours work and I could do it again this weekend, but it is f king annoying! I also feel pretty stupid and mad at myself for simply not copying the files over to my laptop before I shut it down that evening - it would have taken less than 15-seconds or so. Bugger. Carry on.
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Post by Punkrabbitt on Feb 15, 2020 4:29:31 GMT -9
Vermin King lost just about everything when his computer crapped out last year. I've used an external storage drive that's too big to easily lose for years.
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 15, 2020 4:38:31 GMT -9
Yep, been there. Greatest sympathies on your loss. Excuse me while I go do a backup
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Post by shep on Feb 15, 2020 8:47:54 GMT -9
Here! But I should synchronize the folders more often...
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 15, 2020 10:44:37 GMT -9
And don't open Gimp during the file transfer to your backup. Took me close to 20 minutes to clean up that mess
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Post by squirmydad on Feb 15, 2020 16:26:46 GMT -9
I usually have a usb drive in my pocket to backup projects on and every week I do a backup to the external hard-dive. After having tow laptops melt on me over the years I've gotten a bit nervous about only having something saved in one place.
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Post by alloydog on Feb 15, 2020 22:50:15 GMT -9
And don't open Gimp during the file transfer to your backup. Took me close to 20 minutes to clean up that mess Hmmm, never had an issue like that. Do you use Mac, Windows or Linux? I have use Linux for the past 20-odd years and have never had on OS related failure. When I have had hard-drive become corrupted, it has been relatively easy to recover data from them, because of the way Linux handles reading hard-drive differently to Windows (I don't know about Macs). I might try dumping a load of files to an external drive and open GIMP at the same time...
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Post by alloydog on Feb 15, 2020 22:54:23 GMT -9
I usually have a usb drive in my pocket to backup projects on and every week I do a backup to the external hard-dive. Good boy!
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Post by Vermin King on Feb 16, 2020 5:22:38 GMT -9
Windows. There was a driver issue between the hard drive and Gimp. Updating drivers and restarting solved the problem
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Post by alloydog on Feb 16, 2020 5:51:00 GMT -9
Windows. There was a driver issue between the hard drive and Gimp. Updating drivers and restarting solved the problem Windows. Of course...
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Post by alloydog on Mar 8, 2020 0:09:23 GMT -9
After all that, I have recently found that my external harddrive, which is at least ten years old, is now suffering failures. Where I though a load of photos were safe, many are corrupted. In this digital age, it seems nothing is truly safe. Magnetic and electronic media gets corrupted (Hardrives and USB sticks) and optical media, such as CDs and DVDs degrade. What to do? Print it up and seal it in a light proof, air tight box? At least by the time the chemicals in the ink degrade the paper, you'll be dead 'n' buried a looong time, so no-one can nag you about the lost pictures... My next job is to try and find a decent data/image recovery programme.
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Post by shep on Mar 8, 2020 3:59:41 GMT -9
After all that, I have recently found that my external harddrive, which is at least ten years old, is now suffering failures. Where I though a load of photos were safe, many are corrupted. In this digital age, it seems nothing is truly safe. Magnetic and electronic media gets corrupted (Hardrives and USB sticks) and optical media, such as CDs and DVDs degrade. What to do? Print it up and seal it in a light proof, air tight box? At least by the time the chemicals in the ink degrade the paper, you'll be dead 'n' buried a looong time, so no-one can nag you about the lost pictures... My next job is to try and find a decent data/image recovery programme. You could always carve the linework into stone and paint the textures in...
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