Comments | neery: Take this occasion to think through your (lack of) back-up strategy.

neery

Take this occasion to think through your (lack of) back-up strategy.

Sep 25, 2013 19:56

Back when I bought myself a solid state drive for my gaming PC, everyone warned me to make sure to back up everything I put on it, because SSDS fail all the time, and they'll frequently fail catastrophically, instantly, and without warning. So I did! I was super good about backing up all my files to the computer's other hard drive. The computer's ( Read more... )

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tinnny September 27 2013, 20:00:49 UTC

Microsoft saves the day! Muahahaharharhar!

Man, you're lucky. (says the woman who hasn't backed up her computer in three months)

neery September 29 2013, 18:08:52 UTC

Turns out I only sort of am! I managed to back up the rest of my files, and then the computer suddenly malfunctioned again. So apparently it wasn't just the drive after all. :(

At this point I think I need to hand the problem over to an expert. Or possibly buy a new motherboard, which was kind of overdue anyway, and see if that solves the problem. But I REALLY do not want to do all the research that goes into buying a new motherboard, never mind all the fiddly installing.

Do you back up the stuff you've created, at least? It's annoying enough losing music or tv or whatever, but losing fic I wrote or my photos would just kill me.

tinnny October 3 2013, 18:57:35 UTC

Do you back up the stuff you've created, at least? It's annoying enough losing music or tv or whatever, but losing fic I wrote or my photos would just kill me.

Well. I *only* back up the stuff I create. Every two months or so. I don't produce much anyway, so I'm not going to lose more than 5 icons or so at any time. Photos I keep on the camera going back at least two months, too. So I tell myself that it wouldn't be a great loss.

So, not really?