Hard Drive Back-Up
Posted 18/01/2008 - 17:17
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I always when I used windows subscribed to the separate partition and disk theory. So in those days I had a C: drive for just windows and a drive for D: for programs I bought or downloaded and installed, a E: partition on drive D: for Data.
Then I moved to Linux and also Mac, I continue to have more than one drive and O/S seperate from DATA. Of course with all of these O/S's one has to take care to backup preferences and the like.
On the Mac, I use Carbon Copy. I make a bootable external copy of the main drive and the two other partitions for separately bought programs and data are then copied as a .dmg file also to the external drive. The external is only used for backup. Images I have also on DVD and also in Extensis Portfolios, and then these are also on DVD.
Having most of your images and data seperate, makes it far easier to isolate what you really care about to backup.
Then I moved to Linux and also Mac, I continue to have more than one drive and O/S seperate from DATA. Of course with all of these O/S's one has to take care to backup preferences and the like.
On the Mac, I use Carbon Copy. I make a bootable external copy of the main drive and the two other partitions for separately bought programs and data are then copied as a .dmg file also to the external drive. The external is only used for backup. Images I have also on DVD and also in Extensis Portfolios, and then these are also on DVD.
Having most of your images and data seperate, makes it far easier to isolate what you really care about to backup.
Posted 11/02/2013 - 19:08
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I lost about 100GB of DNG's today (never mind the PSDs).
Lost the master boot record on an encrypted drive and found no way of fixing it. Had to rebuild
Only myself to blame
Lost the master boot record on an encrypted drive and found no way of fixing it. Had to rebuild
Only myself to blame
Posted 11/02/2013 - 19:46
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I had 3 Buffalo 500gb Raid drives that lasted, in order of arrival, 10 minutes, less than 30 seconds and 1 day - after that many repalcements as all were proven faulty I opted for a Maxtor 500gb 'one touch' external hard drive.
Its a few years old now but the software is great, plug it in and it does it all for you
Sadly no longer available and I am not sure what the equivalent one would be now
Its a few years old now but the software is great, plug it in and it does it all for you
Sadly no longer available and I am not sure what the equivalent one would be now
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21 years
Totana,
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I now keep minimal info/pics/music etc on my PC - its all on the ext hard drive
but so far - the only problem I have had in 10 years of owning various PCs is with the PCs themselves
touch wood - my external drive - and those used by friends and family havent caused any problems so far
If you have only one copy, you will at some point lose something by accidentally deleting it. You'll lose everything if the drive's electronics fails in some way.
Believe me, it happens. If you haven't had a hard drive fail in 10 years you can count yourself lucky.
I sell and maintain servers and PC's for a living and in the last 10 years I've had to swap out about 25 dead drives and recover the data from backups. I recently had 2 SCSI drives fail within a week of each other in the same RAID array. Admittedly, these are machines that are running 24x7 so they get a lot more use than any home PC. Almost all of these drives failed within their 3 or 5 year warranty period too.
You can't rely on touching wood when disk drives decide enough is enough. External USB or firewire HDD's are great, but I wouldn't use one as my only data repository.