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Wise words from a Wise Man

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  • 21-03-2008 1:47pm
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    PaulBrewer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭


    I received this from Rupert Cobb, our musical friend from London. I confess to having fallen for this once years ago, it ain't gonna happen again!

    http://www.myspace.com/logictoolbox


    "I've had two different artists loose there albums this week because they wont take backing up seriously and think (or rather thought) I was a nerd for nagging them. I had a drive die this week too tis the week of the click of death.
    I'm only mentioning it as a word to the wise. The moon is in the right place to loose stuff so is everyone backed up out there?
    Cheers Rupe"


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    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    PaulBrewer wrote: »
    "I've had two different artists loose there albums this week because they wont take backing up seriously and think (or rather thought) I was a nerd for nagging them. I had a drive die this week too tis the week of the click of death.
    I'm only mentioning it as a word to the wise. The moon is in the right place to loose stuff so is everyone backed up out there?
    Cheers Rupe"

    In the dying days of my college course, I was frantically burning my work from studio machines onto DVD. In my haste I deleted the wrong folder and emptied the trash without thinking, and lost 4 months worth of Pro Tools project files just like that. Managed to recover some of them but not all. A valuable lesson learned :(


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    nyarlothothep
    Registered Users Posts: 5,177 ✭✭✭nyarlothothep


    Had a scare like that a month ago. The blue screen of death appeared and I just thought oh ****, thats it, over 5 years of work gone. Luckily enough my bro was able to fix the problem and my music is safe but I've backed it up since then. You never think its going to happen until it does and then there is no recourse.


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    dav nagle
    Registered Users Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭dav nagle


    nyarlothothep wrote: »
    Had a scare like that a month ago. The blue screen of death appeared and I just thought oh ****, thats it, over 5 years of work gone. Luckily enough my bro was able to fix the problem and my music is safe but I've backed it up since then. You never think its going to happen until it does and then there is no recourse.

    Back all your beef onto DVD, 2 external hard drives, and your system drive to be sure, at least thats what I do! Only lost a clients work once and somehow managed to waffle may way out of the situation and re-record his tune another day! Turned out to be better on the 2nd attempt BUT it is shocking having to tell the chef eh 'I lost your work'


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    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Just did a back up of a project I'm doing today, 60gig of work. Copies onto a seperate hard drive and taken home by the client.

    I always us this to back up onto other drives as I'm working. This application lets you just back up the changes since the last backup.

    http://homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/imsafe/


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