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Hi Dani,
I back up to 2 systems, one is an external hard drive and the second is i-sure this way hopefully i am covered.
I cannot imagine what it would be like to loose all that information
All the best getting sorted,
Peter
Thanks Peter
It's horrific - am a bit overwhelmed with it at this second.
I-sure looks good value - even better than Dropbox or Sugarsync (and I like that the the price is in Pounds not Dollars!).
use one or more of the following on a regular basis
external hard drive
2nd PC on a network
laptop
cloud or similar on-line back up service
burn a CD
USB stick
Yep, know how you feel.
We use I-Sure through Barclays Bank (special deal). We also back up tactically to USB sticks after major work and/or attach to email and send to ourselves.
You never get bitten twice......
For the techie people it has two 1tb drives which are RAIDed together and mirror each other. This almost means it is backing up my back ups!
You have my sympathies Dani. I did exactly the same thing not long after moving here to France.
I lost all of my work photos and photos of my children when they were young, not to mention photos of my home and garden in the UK. All images of our building work here were lost also.
In my case the mistake was all mine. A small speck of plaster got stuck behind a key and held it down. When I booted the machine A screen prompted me to do something and I just pressed OK.
I now have an external hard drive and back up regularly.
I still have the hard drive of my old PC and although I have re-installed factory settings I am led to believe that the images are still saved somewhere on the disk and I will try at some stage to find someone who can explore if they are possible to retrieve.
Oh god Phil that puts its in perspective - thank you for sharing that - what a magical day that'll be if you are able to retrieve them - I hope you do.
Thank you all for your advice - you're right I won't get bitten twice and this is exactly what I needed to know. Nick your back up of back ups sounds very very safe!
Mick - I'm considering all of those right now!
I'm well aware of how stupid I look so thankyou all for not being patronising.
Right - onwards.
Dx
I too have learnt the hard way Dani, I lost many Gigabytes of photos, music, video's, documents. evrything i had was stored on the C drive of my computer. I had a virus problem which buggered things up, I had to re install the operating system which of course meant i had to wipe the hard drive, I almost cried as i pressed the key to begin formatting knowing i was losing so much information,
As Gary RK said you don't get bitten twice, I now back up on an external hardrive, I also have my main hard drive partitioned so I can store things on a partition which won't be formatted in the event of a reinstall.
Very important info i copy to a USB stick and i also email it to myself as an attachment so it is stored off of my system,
My condolences to you Dani, i Know exactly how you feel.
Hard drive retrieval is a relatively simple process - the key is to NOT use it at all and access it via another system. If all is seems hugely lost you can recover vast amounts of data from specialist companies - I've done it many times it a former career life. You'd be looking at a cost of around £200 - but what price goes on photos.
I am with Virgin media for my broadband on a large speed tariff - as such that gives me unlimited backup which is an automatic process - if I update a file it is updated also - it is a huge relief to have that. I also use dropbox for my company folder, do the occasional backup to DVD or Blu-ray and mirror all my data to an onsite network drive.... I may be a little anal! :)
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