Huh. This is the first time I’ve ever posted to a message board with an AJAX word processor. I didn’t think the technology was ready yet. Was this developed by the folks running CGSociety, or is this a third party package?
Anyway…
My name is Erik. I’m a graphic designer currently working for a manufacturing company just outside of Los Angeles. I wish I could list a more hip job reference, but there you go. I also freelance, of course. I’ve actually been a member of CGSociety for some time now, but I don’t like to take part in discussions until I have something to contribute. Due to time constraints and work, that hasn’t been possible, so I thought I’d introduce myself by asking all of you what you do to protect the integrity of the images/animations/etc. stored on your hard drive.
Up to this point I’ve been using a laptop that backs data onto a firewire drive. A few days ago, a file (an image I was Photoshopping for a client, but nothing to cry over - I had multiple variations of the file laying around) got corrupted, and this corrupted file replaced the good, older version on the external drive via the back up operation. It got me thinking that this could be a problem in the future, so I bought a second drive. What I’m going to do now is alternate between drives whenever I back up so that if one goes bad, the other still has relevant data.
I also know of a computer shop that will hold on to one of the drives for me and will give me a USB device that will enable me to back up my data over the Internet to the drive stored at their facility. That way, if there’s a fire or something locally, there’s a drive elsewhere with my data on it. Of course, that assumes no one is going to peek at my drive while it’s stored at this other location…
So… What do you guys do to make sure your files get reasonably backed-up and protected?
Best Regards,
Erik
Also I seperate my OS from programs on different partitions. That way if I need an OS reinstall I’m ok. For a performance boost I set a 5 GB partition on my HD sweet spot with a defragged 3gb page file and MFT.