Thank God for backup.

[MNGuy]

Make sure you back up your work. Saved my ass today. All I was doing was printing my manuscript, and the printer burped, and I'm getting an error message that Windows has encountered a problem and needs to shut down Word.

No big deal. So I start it up again, and it asks me if I want to attempt to recover my file. I did, and all that was there was garbage. The whole frakking file was corrupted!

Thank God I backup a copy on the hard drive, and one on a flash drive daily. Plus one on a CD-RW weekly.

I would hate to lose what I've worked on for a whole year.

Back up people.


That is my PSA, thank you.

 

[English Lady]

it's very, very true. Good advice, my husband makes sure we back up regularly, Bless him.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Most of my works have been emailed to myself two or ten times. I have a few things here at work right now that aren't updated at home, but it's only a few minutes work (I haven't done muych writing in the last few months), so I wouldn't terribly mind losing it.

But yes, I agree about backing things up.

 

[matriarch]

Yes, backing up is good.
I've been caught out twice so far.

Still without my lappie.....waiting for my son to try and reinstall everything.....unfortunately no recovery system I know of will recover lost files.........including hundreds of photographs ( ) and all my writing wips. *sigh*

 

[Guest]

Do yourself a favor: Mozy. You get 2GB of backup encrypted space. It's free, automatic and fabulous.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Do yourself a favor: Mozy. You get 2GB of backup encrypted space. It's free, automatic and fabulous.

I U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

My writing goes on a USB stick. My pictures on CDs.

 

[Goldie Munro]

Sorry just drooling at EL and Mat's AVs.

Good God women what are you doing to us?

 

[Guest]

I U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm glad I was helpful. I haven't needed Mozy yet for reasons that my laptop crashed, but I'm certainly glad it's there in case it does since previously, I did lose work on another piece of shit computer (Gateway, ME version).

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Gateway, ME version

That's the worst thing I've ever heard...

 

[Foxee Browne]

A good backup is a computer geeks best friend! Perhaps I overdo it, external hard drive has one backup of the entire computer, thumb drive has all my documents, and when all else fails, a hard copy is available, just scan it back in.

I had a hard drive fail about a month ago, I was back up and running in 2 hours, nothing lost.

GC

 

[Frank Noir]

My writing goes on a USB stick. My pictures on CDs.

I've switched to USB stick, too. But they don't last forever - my previous one suddenly went dead a few months ago. So yeah - a web based backup is a good thing. The Mozy software doesn't seem to support external drives like the stick - so I use mediamax.com (25 free gigs).