Backing up your sequence

[Dan Ross]

Just thought I would throw out a reminder to everyone to back up your sequence on something other than your hard drive.

When a hard drive goes bad sometimes you get no warning. I have living (well not so living anymore) proof sitting on the floor by my feet, and I ofcourse did not back anything up to something external... So back to the drawing board for me...

Anyway let my pain be a reminder to all to back up to something external.

[KC]

My condolences for your loss...

[Doug-in-the-woods]

Or maybe a boquet of CD's lol

[Dan Ross]

CD's would be good.

The only thing to be careful for is if and when you have to copy from the cd to your hard drive make sure the file on your hard drive (after you copy it back) is not set to read only.

I say this because some of the files I use at work convert to a read only file when burned to a cd and I have to go thru the properties of each one and uncheck the read only option after I copy it back to the hard drive.

[Doug-in-the-woods]

Thats why I don't burn my sequences to a cd.
Wal-Mart told me to use Windows Media Player, burn from player to Cd (I tried going from player to hard drive then CD but files still won't convert to WAV to use in Vixen.
Burned from Player to CD then copied to FlashDrive. Then converted to WAV. It actually worked.

[NogginBoink]

CD's would be good.

The only thing to be careful for is if and when you have to copy from the cd to your hard drive make sure the file on your hard drive (after you copy it back) is not set to read only.

I say this because some of the files I use at work convert to a read only file when burned to a cd and I have to go thru the properties of each one and uncheck the read only option after I copy it back to the hard drive.

Windows will set the read-only flag of any file that is copied from CD-ROM to the hard drive.

[Doug-in-the-woods]

I was told that Roxio burns for read only.
I use Roxio due to the ease of copping files to a cd.
Just drag to the cd icon

[Jeff Millard]

If your PC has RAID capability, consider using it to protect your data. My Dell has four serial ATA interfaces that are RAID capable. I have four 160Gig hard drives in the machine. There are several ways to configure it, but I have it so there are two logical 160Gig drives. The other two are just mirror drives. If one drive fails physically, you replace the drive and the data is immediately restored by the mirror. The machine is two years old and has had two drives fail. I haven't lost any data on the machine. What I keep losing is the stuff on USB hard disks. Has anyone else ever experienced the "Delayed write fail on device..." and realized that the partition on the drive was toast? I tossed a 200G USB drive in the trash last weekend. We won't discuss what was lost on that drive...
Jeff

[random_rodder]

Got a 500GB USB HDD for backup and a 1GB jump drive stores my sequences when done.

[Dan Ross]

I've never had a problem with my usb hard drives (knocks on wood) but I have lost info from my usb jump drive, I did the safe remove from the system and the next morning I turned the computer on plugged the drive in and it was empty, since then I only use those for transportation not storage

[fcky529]

I have all the computers networked in my house (all 9 of them) and I just copy all the sequences and audio over the network to all my pcs, that way I can work on it whenever/wherever.