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"Real men don't take backup, they cry".
I remember uttering that very phrase last thursday, today my entire harddrive crashed....
I had a pretty decent backup of my old files, and most of it I can restore from 3rd party sources except an assignment I have to write for tuesday next week. (10 days)
So bye bye my prewritten 3000 words (the assignment is 6000).
At least I managed to do 4000 words today, hopefully I have time for the last 2k in the coming weeks.
So kids, take some fucking backup.....
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I personally don't backup, though that is mostly since I have no important content. Closest to important is a few game saves since they would erase 20h+ game time on games I havn't finished.
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Register a Dropbox account at https://www.dropbox.com/home. Some games ask you where to save your account files, so point them to a folder in there. When you do assignments, start them in that folder, and CTRL+S periodically.
Also, there are programs which can save a list of all your currently installed stuff, (which you can generate yourself with some programming experience), and similar things so you're never completely screwed. Dropbox is really preferable for just casual storage.
By the way, I know English might not be your native language, but the correct phrase would be, "Real man don't back up." To "back up" is a verb itself.
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Oh boy! 3000 words!
I lost 3 terabytes a few months ago. Unfortunately, at that scale, making a backup requires another 3tb hard drive.
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On October 22 2012 07:23 Blisse wrote:Register a Dropbox account at https://www.dropbox.com/home. Some games ask you where to save your account files, so point them to a folder in there. When you do assignments, start them in that folder, and CTRL+S periodically. Also, there are programs which can save a list of all your currently installed stuff, (which you can generate yourself with some programming experience), and similar things so you're never completely screwed. Dropbox is really preferable for just casual storage. By the way, I know English might not be your native language, but the correct phrase would be, "Real man don't back up." To "back up" is a verb itself.
http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1663955&page=1 Dropbox was vulnerable to ... basically anything.
Spideroak is pretty much a service that has 1uped dropbox.
But yes, back up your shit.
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On October 22 2012 00:32 Grovbolle wrote: "Real men don't take backup, they cry".
I remember uttering that very phrase last thursday, today my entire harddrive crashed....
I had a pretty decent backup of my old files, and most of it I can restore from 3rd party sources except an assignment I have to write for tuesday next week. (10 days)
So bye bye my prewritten 3000 words (the assignment is 6000).
At least I managed to do 4000 words today, hopefully I have time for the last 2k in the coming weeks.
So kids, take some fucking backup.....
I think at this point its better just to forget all the work and come play diablo for 12 hours !
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On October 22 2012 07:42 Release wrote:Show nested quote +On October 22 2012 07:23 Blisse wrote:Register a Dropbox account at https://www.dropbox.com/home. Some games ask you where to save your account files, so point them to a folder in there. When you do assignments, start them in that folder, and CTRL+S periodically. Also, there are programs which can save a list of all your currently installed stuff, (which you can generate yourself with some programming experience), and similar things so you're never completely screwed. Dropbox is really preferable for just casual storage. By the way, I know English might not be your native language, but the correct phrase would be, "Real man don't back up." To "back up" is a verb itself. http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1663955&page=1Dropbox was vulnerable to ... basically anything. Spideroak is pretty much a service that has 1uped dropbox. But yes, back up your shit.
SpiderOak is horrible compared to Dropbox if you don't care about the security of your documents. Like game saves and homework. It's slower, more complicated to set up, and doesn't let you upload without installing a client. And unless you plan on storing sensitive information on the cloud, which is a stupid idea already, you will have no problems with Dropbox.
Nice referral link too.
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Losing hard discs always suck. Good luck with the assignment.
And consider using google docs, no more clicking the save button all the time.
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I don't think I've ever backed up my hard drive.
I know at work I use to back up our file servers, because idiots keep deleting stuff and I'd have to go restore it. "Hey can you restore that file, I deleted it for the 3rd time."
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