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  1. Carsleuth

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    #1 Carsleuth, May 8, 2009
    About 4 days ago, I came close to completely filling up my hard drive. As you may know, when hard drives become almost full it is at a higher risk of crashing. Well, I back up pretty frequently, but haven't in the last two months. Well, everything froze up and the computer wouldn't turn off. I had to pull the power cord out. I turned it back on the next day and within ten minutes backed up all the pictures and am working on backing up my movie files and music files. Still recovering right now so this is why I haven't posted any pictures yet. Working on backing up my sheet music and audio recordings. After that I have to clear off excess files and then I'll photoshop my Supercar Saturday pictures. If I hadn't backed up my files, I would have lost all my pictures of the Ferrari 16M, the FOC CIR event, the show at Continental, and from Supercar Saturday.

    Let this be a lesson, back up your data!!!

    Dan
     
  2. Carsleuth

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    #2 Carsleuth, May 8, 2009
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  3. Jedi

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    #3 Jedi, May 8, 2009
    Hey, I've always been told that Macs don't crash - they only 'hang' :)

    Always been a big fan of the external hard drive - I have a dozen of them that I use
    to keep all the heavy stuff stored (like all the F1 races). I keep the main drive mostly
    free of crap for this very reason.

    Always nice to hear honest Mac users that will admit their computers actually DO
    crash from time to time! So do my Linux boxes, my Vista boxes, and my XP boxes.
    Computers -- CRASH -- period

    Jedi
     
  4. Carsleuth

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    #4 Carsleuth, May 8, 2009
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    The worst part of this is, the only reason I backed up two months ago is because this has actually happened to me before. Yep, my faithful mac of 6 years crashed in 2005. No back up. All the family photos were on it. Spent well over $1,000 having each piece of data removed from the wrecked drive by hand for 4 weeks. Now that this has happened to me twice (well, happened to me once almost happened to me twice) I think I'll back up every week! I actually got Time Machine for my Mac, which I must say is a really amazing thing. It's backing up now. (pic below) Now, my data is in 3 places. That's how I wanna keep it :)
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  5. tifosi12

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    #5 tifosi12, May 9, 2009
    I once did have a total hard drive failure and learned my lesson then. Although I did have a backup from everything up to that year, I lost pics of that year. Oh well, the collection still has about 50,000 pics. :)

    Now I'm storing my data on two independent drives simultaneously (RAID 1).
     
  6. Carsleuth

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    #6 Carsleuth, May 10, 2009
    Yes, I now have two external drives and time machine. Almost done with my Supercar Saturday pictures and then Andreas I'll get you those pictures in full res you requested, I promise :)
     
  7. Mobius Entwine

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    #7 Mobius Entwine, May 11, 2009
    I keep all my work and photos on external mirrored 1 TB hard drives (RAID-1). You read and write to the drive(s) as if it were a single drive, and the hardware RAID automatically duplicates it to the other drive. If a drive goes bad, you still have all your data on the mirrored drive. Replace the bad drive and all your data is duplicated to the replacement. They are very easy to use: just plug it in and use it - there is nothing to configure (on Mac. Windows might be something else.) Only one drive icon appears in the finder.

    I also have a stack of four 250GB external hard drives for backing up extra critical projects. I keep backup external hard drives in a safe. I also, on occasion, give my clients all their work on hard drives (it's faster and easier to give them an old loaded 160 GB drive than back everything up on DVDs.)

    I use these RAID-1 units: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/usb/raid_1/Gmax

    (OWC is a very Mac-centric retailer of RAM, hard drives, etc.)
     
  8. Carsleuth

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    #8 Carsleuth, May 11, 2009
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    That's how time machine works. Check out this screen shot I took. If I delete an email I didn't mean to delete for example, I go into time machine, select the date I want to "travel back to" and get it. If the drive goes bad, it's okay because it's on two other drives.
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  9. Mobius Entwine

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    #9 Mobius Entwine, May 12, 2009
    I have Time Machine running. It even backs up my Windows XP virtual machine (Parallels).
     
  10. sagekilz

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    #10 sagekilz, May 26, 2009
    Dan-

    I use iolo Tech software for hard-drive cleanup. I'm not too happy with it but I can't find anything with great reviews. Any suggestions?????
     

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