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u have now learned the Golden rule of computing
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damn sorry to hear that. gl
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Ouch, that sucks really hard. :/
Sorry you had to learn the back up lesson the hard way.
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): Rough
One time I had a job translating Russian math textbooks into English. I would do it simultaneously with other things such as AIM and Team Liquid and etc.
True story, I was deleting what I was writing in AIM during an argument with a friend by pressing Ctrl+A, delete. Accidentally I had clicked on the word processor instead of the window box and didn't realize it. When I realized what I had done I instantly pressed Ctrl+Z to undo it, but the computer started lagging - all the PPT charts, Russian font, English font, tables and images being deleted starting slowing down my computer to a point of standstill. In desperation I left my laptop on for the night to give it time to fix itself, knowing I can press ctrl+z whenever I get back and it is done deleting.
What I forgot to do was make sure the laptop was plugged in. I come back upstairs a few hours later after hanging out with friends, and I see my laptop is dead. I boot it back up. I restore file.
Fucking Microsoft Word auto-saved the file with nothing in it because the computer died -_-
At least $300 dollars worth of work on my part, gone. I didn't have the heart to do it all over again. I called the guy and told him I quit. He is my parents' friend's dad, so whenever I have to see him during New Years celebrations when my parents take me to visit, it is so fucking awkward and embarassing T_T
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That is very unfortunate.
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United States24750 Posts
Reminds me of when I accidentally overwrote all the grades for a college course, except it wasn't your fault. Eventually, you'll be able to look back and laugh at it, but yeah the backup lesson is one that has to be learned the hard way :<
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Belgium6774 Posts
umm hi Im from the internet and I would like to point out that its obviously drugs that made your computer crash and your day suck
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Belgium6774 Posts
also I just made a backup of all my stuff lol
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u gotta skate8152 Posts
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oh yea that sucks. 2008 Christmas year my server at my job crashed and the previous two months of work was not saved and I had close to 4k orders that had to be tracked down through the office and entered all over again. Oh man was that a bitch but I got paid a good chunk of money for reentering the data.
On May 12 2009 09:20 Xeofreestyler wrote:
also I just made a backup of all my stuff lol
i just did this after reading the blog.
P.S. Getting stoned never hurts nobody.
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Making backup of everything. I just remembered it's been months.
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Backing up is the most important thing that most people don't do, and it fucking sucks when you forget to do it.
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What happened to be, is my backup storage was the disk that died... I lost all my backups, and all of my music... But I have to say, this sucks more. I feel for you, RaGe.
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On May 12 2009 09:07 RaGe wrote:
Then I did the only possible thing I could do. Smoked half a pack of cigarettes in 2 hours and called friends to say that I needed to get stoned fast and hard.
LOL.
nice solution.
Sorry to hear about your loss mate.
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Getting stoned was definitely a good call.
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fuck man im literally hitting stuff right now because i know how much that shit sucks
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Germany2896 Posts
For data which is not too big I recommend getting some form of source control. That way creating the backup are just a few clicks, and you have all previous versions on the server.
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Yeah that sux. I learned the hard way too, but only after 3 hard drives died did I decide to make a backup plan.
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I once had an 80 gig hard drive that was filled completely with relabaled/tagged music and personal pictures and cd keys and other information.
One day it got full and I was trying to make space by burning CDs and the accidentally ripped a CD which caused the computer to crash and the drive wouldn't work anymore. Somehow the 'drive full' message didnt come up either.
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On May 13 2009 06:03 CharlieMurphy wrote:
I once had an 80 gig hard drive that was filled completely with relabaled/tagged music and personal pictures and cd keys and other information.
One day it got full and I was trying to make space by burning CDs and the accidentally ripped a CD which caused the computer to crash and the drive wouldn't work anymore. Somehow the 'drive full' message didnt come up either.
Sounds like a case where using Knoppix or something of that sort could have fixed all your problems.
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T.T
I back up the stuff I care most about on my computer, my laptop, my external harddrive, and my iPod, and my USB key if it's really small.
But if my ext. harddrive died, I'd still be pissed off since a lot of my videos are on there... But luckily my music is backed up in my computer and iPod...
It's good to be paranoid. Computers are too risky to put that much trust in. Which brings the question... How many back-ups are there of TL? :O And how cautious and crazy was TSL?
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I back up twice a month 
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ehm, that bug is pretty easy to fix, get a techie
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On May 12 2009 09:10 Sonu wrote:
u have now learned the Golden rule of computing
this is an expensive golden rule....
On May 13 2009 10:23 Cambium wrote:I back up twice a month
that's a bit OD
oh btw i forgot there r websites that lets u back up files for free!
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On May 21 2009 21:58 R3condite wrote:Show nested quote +On May 12 2009 09:10 Sonu wrote:
u have now learned the Golden rule of computing this is an expensive golden rule.... that's a bit OD oh btw i forgot there r websites that lets u back up files for free!
those things are only useful if you have a FAT FAT FAT upload tube
if not, you probably shouldnt bother
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Ever since I had my PSU/HD's and shit die on me while working on papers/thesis that kind of stuff, I started instantly mirroring my documents online. That and buying many extra hd's to mirror the large things offline as well. ^^
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oh damn thats tough dude. my hdd crashed a few weeks back lost all my music and shit, not work which is more valuable, but still a major bummer. good thing u got those friemds emirite?
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Valhalla18444 Posts
On May 13 2009 10:23 Cambium wrote:I back up twice a month
i back up when i need to move away from something directly in front of me
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EPT
