Posted: 05 January 2005 at 5:07pm | IP Logged

Hi folks..hope you all had a good new year.....i didn,t...my hard drive packed up and i,ve lost all my music!!...so...dont be stupid like me ...always back up your files..i didn,t.........the only saving grace is that i always do my keyboard parts on my old roland sequencer and put the lot onto one stereo track....they are all saved on floppy disks!....but once again...back up your work

Howsie

Posted: 06 January 2005 at 1:41pm | IP Logged

Most learn about backing up and personal system administration the hard way. It's best to be ultra-paranoid where computers are concerned, assuming every second that the hard drive will fail without warning, that someone will hack into it, that your system will become infected or used as an unwitting proxy for someone's spamming activities. You simply cannot be too careful.

I kep nothing of 'value' on drive C at all, only the programmes needed to operate my computer. All my personal stuff is kept on a slave drive, and this drive is regularly backed up onto CDs without fail - as I assume that both drives will fail at the same time (it's happened before once). I also assume that my backup CDs, and disks containing critical software etc. will become corrupted, lost, or be beamed away by hostile aliens...so I make backups of backups, and store them away in a safe, remote location. I've even gone to the lengths of leaving copies of things with friends...that's how paranoid I am!!!

It's paid off for me over the last couple of years however. There has been a couple of situations when my system has been trashed or made unusable via viruses, trojans etc, and once remotely attacked by a certain obnoxious individual (I have my suspicions)! But I can get formatted, and up and running again in less than an hour...and never lose so much as a single byte of data.

Posted: 06 January 2005 at 8:02pm | IP Logged

got it in one Ffabbia; i run by these rules like a nut case...



or do i?