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Just lost 4 months off work, was to lazy to backup and was naive to think that Macs dont break. Maybe ( posibbly) I'm the olny sucker not to backup stuff but if not I'm just tring to remind everyone about the importance of doing so. Cheers.
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I feel that, I just lost all of my .wav masters and Renoise files like a week ago. I have a new hard drive now. Thankfully, I had been sending a few people 320s of everything so I was able to get the actual tunes back, but still, that shit was straight fucked up.

thanks

I need to do this tonight

Do this every week aint taking no chances

nowaysj wrote:Lost 6 months of work in the early days, think I formatted the wrong drive letter or some other genius move.

But I haven't learned my lesson. I started hearing a nasty grinding noise in my pc, thought it was the hard drive, I've got nothing backed up. I was shitting it. Turned out to be my graphics card's fan. Just ripped the fan off of the card, slapped it back in its pci express slot, hot as a button, right next to my beloved emu 1616m card, and called it a day. No backups for me.

you jsut ripped of the fan? That's one stupid move to make hahaha atleast put some passive cooling on it man!

hard drive is space is outrageously cheap these days... i mean, i just bought a 1TB drive for like $130. there's plenty of apps that will sort out backing up for you on a daily/weekly/whatever basis. if yr on a mac, you can use time machine...

but you gotta do it!

i have like octabackups...but I never actually 'back up'

i just buy new hard drives and have horrid organizational skills...but I have everything in at *least* triplicate

nowaysj wrote:after that, you won't even be able to tell there is a computer on.

yeh, because it'll stop turning on

i'll take my chances. mac's DONT fail.

Ketamine wrote:mac's DONT fail.

if I could take screenshots of kernel panics I experience about twice weekly, i would just so people of your stature would stfu

Flash drives

Lots of them

For those of you that use PC's, and have lost files from your HD, they are recoverable. Nothing's lost until you give in! (unless your HD has defo given up the ghost and died)

The link below is a DOS based application I ran recently when I my portable HD died on me, wiping out 12 years of samples that I'd built up. I had given up and thought the worst, but managed to recover everything.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

The site gives you the app download and there's links to guides on how to use it (it takes a bit of getting used to, but is fairly straight forward).

Have faith people!!

It depends what happens to your hard drive as to whether you can recover it or not. I lost 6 months of compositions when my seagate macbook hard drive failed. The specific seagate model that comes with a white macbook is prone to mechanical failure (as opposed to the memory just becoming corrupted, which can be sorted out).
So, if you own a white macbook, take extra care (can be caused by leaving your macbook on sleep constantly instead of turning it off. the amount your hard drive goes to sleep and is reaccessed is instrumental in fucking it over).
Remember, it always happens just before you're due handing over the final mixes for your release

That's a tragedy, I'm sure they were beasts. Have you redone them, because everything I've heard of yours has been on a different level mate.

What actually is the best way to back up?

I use cubase and if my desktop failed and I had backups of the cubase song files, would I be able to open them in a re-installed cubase, even tho it will have different vst setups and the like? This makes the midi files only half as useful right?

Or is it best to save it all as idividual wav files or render each track as audio?

Several weeks work right there surely?

Is there a way to back up the whole freakin' setup in one???

i have never my self lost any of my work, i have for a few item like in my memory stick but they was in my house and i found them again so there not really lost lol, so i still felt some PAIN, you get scared man thinking say if say opens your memory stick with all you files HES GOT EVERYTHING OF YOURS!!!!!!!!! I HAVE SHIT MY SELF A FEW TIMES LOL or you could just drop your hardrive like someone said lol

i think i going 2 have to get my hard drive out 2mor 4 a back up now