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What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:10 pm
by WatchYourStep
My hard drive just cakkkd out on me last night (luckily right after I deleted my only backup), but I sync most of my good music to my phone, so if worse comes to worst I can get back most of my tunes from there, and the tech at the store said he'd likely be able to recover some datas, so I should be mostly okay, but it made me realize that I really have no backup plan for if this happened while I'm working (I play for a student lounge and they're all off for christmas break, so this happened at a perfect time).
What is your backup plan?
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:13 pm
by DZA
Extrenal harddrive and dvd discs
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:36 pm
by yellowhighlighter
download all my cracks again.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:43 pm
by muttleydubs
piss my pants then shit my pants
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:46 pm
by JFK
Find a nice quiet corner a have a cry.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:34 am
by dman5000
i usually bring a few records just in case, like greatest hits or compiliations, stuff you can replay and its either a bomb artist or diff artists and then a few singles or whatver to spice it up
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:51 pm
by deadly_habit
dvd backups, external hard drive and a fireproof safe
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:13 pm
by BOOGIE BOY
External hardives A and B, holding exactly the same data (samples, project files, vst's. Basically I have a backup of a backup, and we all need one.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 10:19 pm
by drenster
you can actually get an Enclosure for your busted hard drive and retrieve most if not all of your files. Same situation happen to me, hard drive busted, bought a new hard drive and with my old one i put into an enclosure plugged it in through usb and now have my own external.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:49 pm
by collige
Time Machine
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:51 pm
by tripaddict
hit the panic button lol
my laptop did this the other week but tbh i never used it much ... now it just beeps and wont turn on
im now a full time pc
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 11:52 pm
by tripaddict
JFK wrote:Find a nice quiet corner a have a cry.
lmao i've cried before over lost data
*wonder if i should of just admitted that ? lol
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 3:17 am
by abZ
I have lost data one time. I just sighed and moved on. You can get new data. Super highway of info innit. I have been using my wifes laptop to dj with while my dj comp is in the shop. I actually have this new system where I have the same couple folders on an external and both laptops. I'll just copy one in to the other and back again to make sure all tunes are duplicated.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:55 am
by WatchYourStep
Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig? I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.
I don't own any other equipment (in the past i've had old turntables and mixers kicking around, but i sold them all), so I'd be SOL.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:29 am
by drokkr
DZA wrote:Extrenal harddrive and dvd discs
Same but I think I might get another external hardrive soon
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:29 pm
by abZ
WatchYourStep wrote:Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig? I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.
I don't own any other equipment (in the past i've had old turntables and mixers kicking around, but i sold them all), so I'd be SOL.
Well WTF? You are fucked then. I mean you should at least have an external or even a 2/4 gig flash drive handy with you tunes. Worst case scenario you can talk one of your mates into bringing down their shit for you to play on. I have stacks of vinyl at my house, I could still play a gig even if some drops an EMP on my studio. If only I felt confident on cdj's I would never have an excuse not to do a gig.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 7:45 pm
by hurlingdervish
take care of your feckin compooter
buy a spare battery
dont run it on high power all the time
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:44 pm
by Wolverine
Cry and be a miserable tnuc for a few days
try to troubleshoot the problem and repair if at all possible
if that fails, borrow, sell, do whatever i could to replace my laptop.
I really need a back up one anyways, i have one laptop, running production programs and samples etc, and i use it to play out on serato.
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:50 am
by angry
WatchYourStep wrote:Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig?
I've got Time Machine making incremental back ups to a partition on an external hdd. Then on another partition, SuperDuper makes a clone of my MacBook hard drive, which is bootable in a couple of minutes. That gets around the problem of restoring completely from Time Machine, which takes a while. Don't know how you'd do this on Windows.
I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.
Then you're screwed.
Seems to me like you're worrying too much. Backup your whole hard drive regularly onto an external hdd. Backup really important files to Dropbox - anything I'm working on currently is sync'd to that, so if my house burns down and the hard drive is destroyed, I've still got it. I'd like to get a second external hdd to keep at another house but that means £££...
Re: What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:25 pm
by ketamine