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As a result of , I have lost my (bloody enormous) sample library. Somehow, I didn't realise this when I made the original HD crash thread. I'd built it up over about 6 years and was about 60gb. Whilst I have a lot of it on CD/DVD/other machines, there's still about 20gb lost, gone for ever, some of which were things I'd recorded/synthesised/made and hence can never be replaced. Now, the feeling isn't quite as gutting as losing all the music you've ever done (I know from bitter experience), but it comes a close second. So, any ways of protecting large quantities of samples, ideally whilst retaining the directory structure (to enable it to be restored more easily) and also keeping it updated? In the past, I've had it do a nightly scheduled task to back it up to the other disk, but since it has gotten so big, my second disk couldn't handle it and I disabled that. I also think that nightly copying of 60gb+ of data will wear both drives out a lot quicker. Another thing would be external firewire/usb hard drives, but a few people I know have had problems with them (data being mysteriously lost, auto-synch with designated drive not working, etc.) and the cost puts me off a bit. Burning to DVDs is all well and good, but it's difficult to manually track where each of the changes/updated files have been made, and only back up the new stuff. It also relies on being proactive in backups, whereas I'd far rather it was automated. I'd rather not have something network based as when I rebuild the machine (which I really will need to get round to doing at long last) I want it completely stand alone. Without looking at sillily expensive things like tape robots/blade servers full of HDs, are there any other options? |
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thoughest |
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i've considered an external drive too, but i just don't know where my money should be spent. i like the convenience of USB but yeah, like you say, it seems a bit unreliable, the stuff that's out there. |
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u/l them to some internet space thing or other |
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My boss was actually speaking to me about this the other day. He said he thought my emails/letters etc. were great as they included everything you needed to know, as well as the answers to the obvious questions people would ask upon reading it. Basically he thought it sped things up no end, as there was less of a "back and forth" exchange of emails neccessary to get the whole picture, before you could start working on things. I've become concious of the fact that sometimes I do make it a bit too long, particularly for the people who want to get a rough idea, without all the technical stuff, so I've taken to making the first paragraph a sort of abstract; cover the essentials there, then expand on it below. They've even cited my emails as useful documents after things have been fixed, as they tend to have info all in one place and they've even been used as knowledge base articles and as the basis for procedural documents. As you say, "thoughest". I think it stems from my dislike of usual linear conversations, where you can 90% of the time predict the next person's response (in the case of close people, often word for word) and have already prepared your response to that, ad infinitum. It's almost as if I'd rather just cut to the chase and just give them all the pertinent information in one go. I'm undecided if my style is a bit too long for MBs. Some people seem to like it, but others, irritatingly for me, seem to think it's too long and just skim read it and then post something asking a question that I clearly answered in the original text. I may well adopt the abstract first paragraph method I do in business emails for my MB posts too. H80rz, feel free to rip away. :P I know it isn't always necessary, for example, instead of this post, I could have just said: true |
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RAID5 |
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haha. did you predict i'd say this: "you wear purple pants." |
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It's a nice counterpoint to the typical teen/messageboard game of answering important, urgent or complex questions with as few words as possible. Roughly equivalent of the vocal "ugh" so beloved of boys under 18. |
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Yes, that's the sort of thing I'm talking about. |
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Well, something about your posts makes me read them completely, even though i have absolutely no knowledge of most of the subjects you discuss (mainly hardware stuff). A thread like this will easily stay in my mind and warn me from time to time that it's time to start backing up data. |
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Yes. I'm particularly fond of the "Ask three questions, get one answer" approach favoured not only by teenage messageboard posters, but also barely-literate colleagues and salespeople. For example, Email 1, from you to them: "Hi person x, I'm really interested in buying this from you/helping you/otherwise benefiting you in some way. Before I go ahead, I just wanted to check the following: - What colour is it? - If it's red, does it have green stripes? - How many are there? If you mail me back with the answers to these questions, that'd be great and I'll get right on the case. Cheers, Ceri." Email 2 (them to you): "Yeah sur. go rite ahead." Email 3 (you to them): "Hi, Just wanted to clarift something; In your previous mail you said yes. What is that refering to? Is that yes it's red? Also, if you could give me the other info I asked for that'd be great. Ta, Ceri" Email 4 (Them to you): "YES. As I said in my other email it's red. HTH, irritating-pigshit-thick colleague." *You bite your tongue and resist the temptation to point out that, no they didn't say it was red.* Email 5 (You to them): "Hi, Thanks for letting me know re: the colour. Please could you confirm whether or not it (they?) have green stripes and how many of them there are? I can't really progress this until I have this info. Thanks, Ceri" Email 6 (Them to you): "Didn't you get my other mail? theyre red." *bangs head on table* ...and so it goes on. You can number the points 1, 2 and 3, but they still don't get the hint. I think it should be law that is someone bullet points an email, the reply should use the original email and you answer each one, in a different coloured text after it. |
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Phob: I use RAID in work, but I believe unless you want up to the minute data coherency between the disks, it's not as good as the overnight backup system I described (for a home user like me). Reason being, Raid controllers can crash and knacker both disks (I've seen it happen several times, although admittedly it is rare). |
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I've had that conversation before. My usual counter is to reply to their feeble response with "thank you for your informative reply" then copy the original email word for word and send it again. The more usless replies I get the more of the above words get enclosed in inverted commas in my response. |
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what you are probably dealing with is people who can't touch type. when you can touch type, it is easy to rattle off a huge ass email. but to a person that can't touch type, they gotta keep looking at their fingers and if they have, like, a lot of hangnails or warts or something they can't stand to keep looking at their hands, then they make an error and rather than use the mouse or arrows, they use the delete key to go all the way back and fix the error. but if you can touch type, you just hit the delete with your pinkie and continue like nothing happened. i can touch type, it's the only useful thing i learned in highschool i rekkon. i'm always saying, "learning to touch type is the most useful thing i learned in highschool." sure i learned algebra and trig and calculus and such and sure i learned a great deal about U.S. history and very little about world history. but on the basis of the skills from highschool that i use on an everyday basis, touch typing is the most valuable. well maybe that and driving. i learned to drive stick in highschool and that is definitely useful because my car is a stick shift or "manual" as some people refer to it. so back to touch typing. it's great because it allows you to really stream your thoughts as they arrive in your noggin and at the same time spell check. well, of course that requires that you actually know how to spell all the words that come to your consciousness. perhaps this is another thing that i retained from highschool. a vocabulary. actually most of my vocabulary i probably picked up post highschool because i probably only read like 15 novels before the 9th grade and maybe 15 more during highschool. but in college is was probably more like a novel a week. of course my sentence structure could use a bit of work and also my use of punctuation and capitalization. But you see, my stream of consciousness knows no punctuation. well i have a large glass of wine to drink and i have to wash my wife's breast pump so i'll leave it at tha |
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i know it's not helpful but :D love the thread :D just love it - maybe cause uuurgh once again - no comment. x_X |
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Look for syncback on google. And I don't see what the problem is with external USB-drives. I've never had any problem with my ICY BOX. |
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