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I bought myself a shiny new 250GB Iomega Firewire/USB external hard drive in early April, in the interests of storing large amounts of musically related data… and backing up my internal drive on my PC. And it just so happens that it failed on Thursday!
Well, the cookie has crumbled and all the chocolate chips have fallen out and that’s just the way it goes!
So, yeah – now I’m thinking either of writing large quantities of DVD’s to back up my various contents, or needing to run two drives in parallel in order to backup what I have.
Funny how I went from ‘blissfully unaware’ with 60GB (mostly full) on hand, to 310GB and lots of room but feeling slightly more secure… to wanting to now buy another 300GB to cover for the loss of *both* drives should one of them fail. Crikey!
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, a workmate downstairs in the I.T. department is working away at seeing if he can extract all my old files… including a complete CD collection ripped to iTunes, my complete sample and midi library for recording, and a whole bunch of ‘scratch’/demo/working files recorded in Cubase over the last couple of years – including some by my mates Joe and Herbie. Ahh boo!
I’m just grateful all of our holiday photos and all my word documents are ok, on the 60GB drive. Time to do some further research into backup media.
So yes, important lesson learned. And a good one to learn before stepping out and writing my book – which will be hundreds of hours of work, and thousands and thousands of words – too valuable to lose! So it’ll make another hundred pounds or so well worth the investment.
Shaken, stirred, but still confident I can get my data back.
I have been inspired by a mate’s blog to get back onto Blogger and get on with it.
There was a photo on said blog of said friend and his new fiance up in the Waitakere Ranges when they were newly engaged. I say ‘newly’ in that I suspect the photo was taken within seconds of the ’she said yes’ moment.
That’s a great moment. I just have to say. (Being a newlywed is a beautiful thing of course, such that I am, but that’s slightly off topic!). I love hearing about people getting engaged, and knowing the journey ahead… and remembering.
It’s appropriate that as I write this I have Eva Cassidy singing ‘What a wonderful world’ in my (awesome Sennheiser) headphones.
Anyway, just wanted to share. As you do.
