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Post by Rhannon on Oct 31, 2012 3:58:41 GMT -9
I'm waiting for some new products, and recently I could not find anything new ... so I look for news From AGC site ( www.avalon-games.com/blog/ ) A bad story but I hope it ends well (as I think). Good luck, Rob. PS: I don't have many AGC files, but if you need them, they are at your disposal.
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 31, 2012 6:22:47 GMT -9
There's an old Dilbert where the customer service punch line is "Yes, sir, it's OUR fault, but it's YOUR problem." Sounds more like a Weird Al Nirvana parody: Smells Like Mean Lawsuit. Maybe they should change their name to Carbonot. I use Carbonite, but now I'm going to pay a lot more attention to my backup drive.
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Post by old squirmydad on Oct 31, 2012 6:46:49 GMT -9
Holy...[expletive]...I get upset when I have one file go corrupt or missing. Sounds like Rob is handling what could have been a disastrous meltdown with some cool maturity, good for him.
External HDD's are cheap, buy more archives.
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Post by Rhannon on Oct 31, 2012 6:50:33 GMT -9
There's an old Dilbert where the customer service punch line is "Yes, sir, it's OUR fault, but it's YOUR problem." Sounds more like a Weird Al Nirvana parody: Smells Like Mean Lawsuit. Maybe they should change their name to Carbonot. I use Carbonite, but now I'm going to pay a lot more attention to my backup drive. You are a profesional producer Glenn, so you can undestand the whole problem. This is not a good thing but I'm sure that AGC will solve this problem.
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Post by kiladecus on Oct 31, 2012 7:52:01 GMT -9
I get upset when I can't get an image to post on Facebook! I have Flash drives and back-ups on my computer and laptop. I have only been doing this thing for a couple years, and only seriously for a few months. I can't IMAGINE what you are going through, Hemdog! All my best to you guys at Avalon! Anything I can do to help, let me know. I will volunteeer my time and what little skills I have to help you guys in ANY way I can. Shoot me an email, (my address is to the left), or drop me a PM. I can't do much, but what I have is YOURS! David
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Post by Dominic on Oct 31, 2012 10:21:45 GMT -9
Thats most definitly a severe case of Ouch... I had a few files turn corrupt on me, but I managed to find a computer with a copy still working, using Dropbox. But I will set up some more backups just in case...
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Post by glennwilliams on Oct 31, 2012 11:08:48 GMT -9
Thats most definitly a severe case of Ouch... I had a few files turn corrupt on me, but I managed to find a computer with a copy still working, using Dropbox. But I will set up some more backups just in case... Oh yeah, Dropbox just got a whole lot more important!
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Post by Dominic on Oct 31, 2012 13:15:46 GMT -9
Although it lacks a kind of wayback-feature - I'm still looking for a way to have 2-3 backups of every file, either from every five minutes or the most recent changes and so on...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 18:09:40 GMT -9
I'm still looking for a way to have 2-3 backups of every file Actually 2 nor even 3 is not reliable backup... Incremental week-cycle backup could be reliable solution - and nowadays you don't need expensive tape backup storage systems - there is a lot of NAS solutions available at affordable prices on market (and most of decent ones are scalable - ie you can add new HDD when your storage needs grow, plus userfriendly - automated backup features, accessibility via WiFi or LAN files for many computers etc) In fact HDD crashes are not so common. Most typical problems are corrupted or accidentally deleted / overwrited single files or folders (and these errors are done usually by user - tired/rushing etc.. . Surprisingly quite often if something goes wrong with particular file/folder, when you realise and are going to restore data from backup it occurs that #2 and often #3 backups are... already overwriten with error / overwriten version. I've learned this painfull lesson. I still can remember my panic when I was looking for backup of some overwriten (hopefully not crucial one) folder and found that my brand new external USB HDD just refused to work and then old backups on DVD are not readable anymore... So now (despite automated incremental backup!) I'm doing "manual" backup on 2 external drives after finishing each major step of current project and then after working day and at the end of weeks. Kinda lot of effort... but still its less costly than loosing couple weeks or even months of work.
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Post by Dominic on Oct 31, 2012 22:16:03 GMT -9
What I would like to have is something that I have seen at work once - backups for "4 hours ago", "6 hours", "1 day" and so on. Problem is, apparently I'm lazy and did not have enough corruption damage myself to motivate me... I do have a NAS, but I have yet to set it up to backup my work folder, since I'm using dropbox and I cannot use a network folder as the dropbox folder, or do not want to. I don't think that makes sense... And I think I will take this thread as a reason to make some changes to my file structure... As for human error... I hear you .
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Post by Sirrob01 on Oct 31, 2012 23:09:35 GMT -9
What I would like to have is something that I have seen at work once - backups for "4 hours ago", "6 hours", "1 day" and so on. Problem is, apparently I'm lazy and did not have enough corruption damage myself to motivate me... When I'm building or using gimp/inkscape for a full weekend I have 2 separate profiles I switch on using syncback (free version), each one backs up to a different folder tagged 1/3 with files overwritten at those time hour intervals (you have to use advanced under the scheduling options). I change the profiles to only backup the current working folder not my whole HDD. My daily backup runs over the top of that as per normal for everything. So far saved my butt on a few occasions when GIMP or Inkscape has crashed on save corrupting a file. Still would like to have an offsite backup, but I'm only doing this as a hobby so hard to justify thought the above might be some help
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Post by moloch on Nov 2, 2012 3:46:12 GMT -9
Ouch... that hurts. I just back up to an external hhd and dvd disk in some instance. I started publishing around 2007 and alot of my file I consider master file with a lot of info on how I textured the layers.
Once I accidentally deleted my 2nd hdd partition when I was supposed to delete the partition on the 3rd hdd (deleting the partition makes the hdd invisible to the os as a data storage device). I was ready to create a new partition over the deleted one (using window's console management tool) when I was asked myself why is windows showing it as 500 gigs when the hdd I was going to repartition and reformat should only be around 120 gigs. I deleted the wrong partition on the wrong hdd... I was lucky that I didnt created a new partition on that drive.
Man, Windows 7 doesn't have a partition recovery tool. I had to get a free third party software to recover my deleted partition (once you delete a partition, it's permanently gone under windows 7). If I couldn't recover it I would have lost close to 500 gigs of data... My original artwork (one master copy had over 200+ layers / around 20 original works), all my publish, and all the old paperworld stuff I had created including some unpublish stuff. Good thing I understood how deleting a partition doesn't mean it's not there. It's just that the OS has tag it so not to see it anymore similar to deleting a file. Note: I made it a point not to tinker with my computer at 3:00 am.
I could understand his fustration when losing important data on a hdd. It's really bad when you're paying someone to keep it secure and they turn out to be incompetent...
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