Backed up your harddrive lately??

[offtheline]

Hey just a reminder to back up your harddrive if you havent done it lately.

My roommates comp just crashed and luckily he is a computer nerd like me and backed his files up three days ago.

Just a friendly reminder.

[BuudWeizErr]

Happened to me a while back. But I'm a 1337 h4x0r so I recovered it all. Cuz I be 1337 like dat, fo sho.

[Camel]

lol Bud....

[Chingon]

fibrechannel here....no need for such primitive actions.

[Camel]

I'll tell you what you need to back up is those FSM's that llamabeta just posted. I dl'ed them last night and wrote them to cd immediately.

[offtheline]

heh camel... thats actually what made me think of it. Screw all of my documents... those fsms are gold.

[Camel]

Definately..... I have spread them out all over the place just to make sure i don't lose them in any form or fashion. Someone put alot of time into the PDF links for the FSM's. Best PDF i have seen in a while as far as navigation goes...

[D1SR240]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about

[Camel]

I have no idea what you guys are talking about

Check out the download fsm's thread in general chat. You won't be dissapointed.

[Hellion240sx]

um how do you back up your hard drive. and what is backing up your haard drive

[offtheline]

Um...not sure if this is a joke or not. There are numerous ways to back up your hardrive. I usually burn a CD of all of my important files. You do it so that you dont lose all of your precious files if your computer dies.

[Hellion240sx]

lol, no like really im not to good with comps. lol sorry. Am i that dumb???

[AceInhole]

it's all good. my "self- help" videos are already backed up on DVD.

[Hellion240sx]

are you maiking fun of me dammit??? :P

[Chingon]

don't worry...I consider myself good with computers and don't really backup anything. I really never lose anything unless it's through my same account, so really hellion, you are not missing much.

[180fan]

yep, back up at least once a month. It's all incremental though. As for those fsm's that were up for a little bit of course! D/Led em as soon as I could along with as many install's (such as the 300zx brake swap for both front and rear) and tossed em onto a cd which I named "240sx Resource CD" ha ha ha. I don't risk losing inportant data. Don't mind my paranoia though, just too often I've had to tell clients "no your data's not recoverable by normal means" and they don't want to pay the fees for a clean room recovery.

[Camel]

no doubt, sounds like you and i are in the same business.

[MOTOP]

fibrechannel here....no need for such primitive actions.

Explain to me how does fiberchannel prevent you from crashes ?

Wanna hear some RAID5+hot spare horror stories ????

[Camel]

mabye he is fibre channel to shark dasd or something, cut him some slack. hehe....

[MOTOP]

Chingon,

Unless you have Storagetek or NetApp SAN connected via multiple redundant GBIC switch, STFU , coz you sound like those damn ricers from another post that "run" low 12's on stock SR.

On topic. I have over 120gigs of MP3s most of which are CDs which I own/used to own. So backup for me is just crucial. Four 35GB (uncompressed) DLT tapes for me

[rco8786]

Wanna hear some RAID5+hot spare horror stories ????

I got a few of those.

Worked IT for the county last summer...man some people are dumb.

"I had all my files backed up to My Documents."

[Chingon]

I have a jbod on my fibrechannel. I use ide raid 0 and don't keep much of my important data there. I have 2 hbas just in case one fries. What I mean is that hard drives are just real robust piece of hardware now adays. I've never burned one in 5 years. And of course fibrechannel drives are a whole different ball game, they have an operating life of like a million hours. The only thing that's really of my concern are the t-cards that I fabricated to use the drives. But then again my worries are just hypothetical.

[Chingon]

"I had all my files backed up to My Documents."

That's funny...

[Nathan]

I look at crashes or hard drives fubaring as an opportunity to reload everything and start with a clean slate...I almost welcome the opportunity because my computer always seems much faster after the crap is gone

[MOTOP]

Chingon,

no disrespect but the way you posted first was just asking for flames. I might have gotte too sensitive about things after my accounting server with RAID5 crashed couple of months ago.

[180fan]

nice exotic bit of hardware you got there motop. mmm raid 5... but damn how'd that guy crash? Age of the hd's or running a heavy load?

[MOTOP]

nice exotic bit of hardware you got there motop. mmm raid 5... but damn how'd that guy crash? Age of the hd's or running a heavy load?

It is my work. I'm IT manager. The HD's were like 2 years old or so. But two of them carshed within 5 minutes of each other, which didn't leave sufficient time to rebuild the container with hot spare.

Thank god for the backup. Whopping 27 GB of financial data. If not for the backup I'd be on the job market now.

[Chingon]

yeah motop I know what you mean...I'm sorry If I sounded like a moron...I was just joking. But anyways...my point was that in home computers...backup is not a critical need (just my opinion).

[MOTOP]

My friend was devastated when he fried his hard drive at home.

More than 70 gigs of top select pr0n has vanished

[Chingon]

My friend was devastated when he fried his hard drive at home.

More than 70 gigs of top select pr0n has vanished

give me 2 days and I betya I can get it back..