thrill wrote:Bummer for your son. I'd be lost without my ipod.
Does your ipod have mapquest or TomTom or something?
Spiritually/emotionally lost. Music is the mapquest/tomtom to my sanity and since the computer that held 80% of my music is dead and I didn't have it backed up, I'd be pretty much music-less.
Interesting. I can't really relate. I mean, I've had my entire cd collection (or a good portion of it) stolen twice. If I lost many of my books, I'd be unhappy, because a lot of my favorite stuff is in there and some texts are pretty irreplaceable, but I'd still know what those texts were about and would remember how those works affected me.
Have you thought about getting a second ipod to copy your music over to to serve as a backup/server? Is that possible?
I have an external 120 GB hd that saved EVERYTHING (not just the music but all my photos, documents etc) when my HD failed last month.
thrill wrote:Bummer for your son. I'd be lost without my ipod.
Does your ipod have mapquest or TomTom or something?
Spiritually/emotionally lost. Music is the mapquest/tomtom to my sanity and since the computer that held 80% of my music is dead and I didn't have it backed up, I'd be pretty much music-less.
Interesting. I can't really relate. I mean, I've had my entire cd collection (or a good portion of it) stolen twice. If I lost many of my books, I'd be unhappy, because a lot of my favorite stuff is in there and some texts are pretty irreplaceable, but I'd still know what those texts were about and would remember how those works affected me.
Have you thought about getting a second ipod to copy your music over to to serve as a backup/server? Is that possible?
I have an external 120 GB hd that saved EVERYTHING (not just the music but all my photos, documents etc) when my HD failed last month.
I just installed the new Mac operating system (Leopard) last weekend, and in order to use one of its cool new features I had to buy a G-Tech external hard drive. Mine's 120GB, and it cost me about $150. There's a new program called Time Machine, and if you have an external hard drive hooked up, it will back all (and I mean all) of your data up once every hour. It was worth it.
ThatGuy wrote:I just installed the new Mac operating system (Leopard) last weekend, and in order to use one of its cool new features I had to buy a G-Tech external hard drive. Mine's 120GB, and it cost me about $150. There's a new program called Time Machine, and if you have an external hard drive hooked up, it will back all (and I mean all) of your data up once every hour. It was worth it.
I set that up too. I wish it were more customizable and you could set a schedule though. I figure that's coming later.
ThatGuy wrote:I just installed the new Mac operating system (Leopard) last weekend, and in order to use one of its cool new features I had to buy a G-Tech external hard drive. Mine's 120GB, and it cost me about $150. There's a new program called Time Machine, and if you have an external hard drive hooked up, it will back all (and I mean all) of your data up once every hour. It was worth it.
I set that up too. I wish it were more customizable and you could set a schedule though. I figure that's coming later.
I have a feeling you're right. I'm not sure if I would actually come up with some kind of schedule, though - as long as it gets backed up, I don't really care when it happens.
Mine was purchased by myself and I just saved the most important crap there and day to day stuff on my regular hard drive.
No "formal back up" but basically everything I really cared about was there.
Looking back I wish I had done a few things:
-Set up my outlook .pst archive folder there (could had the bulk of my emails after my computer died!)
-Saved some kind of disc image, something that showed all contents of my internal drive
Other than that, no scheduled back up would have made anything better. I basically considered the computer internal HD as temporary and the external HD as permenant. I took it a lot of places (as opposed to a laptop or discs I guess) and plugged it in when needed.
I recommend having one even if it isn't a part of a package.
