Its National Back Up Your 3rd Wire Stuff Day

[+Dave 2,318]

Folks take the time today to back up all your mods, and files. You will thank me later.

[+Dave 2,318]

Yes you will.

[+Brainless 1]

Yes you will.

 

Ask a silly question (it is ''Brainless'') but why do we need to do this?

 

Is something to do with a 3rd Wire update or something?

[+Dave 2,318]

Because its wise thing to do in case of a HD crash.

[HrntFixr 4]

Yep as a matter a fact I'm going to get some CD's and back up tonight!!!!!!

[+Brainless 1]

Because its wise thing to do in case of a HD crash.

I've experienced this. Believe me losing your games is the least of your problems, much as you may cherish them, if this happens and your system holds all your reallife details!! You need to back up everything and even then its unbelievable hassle as others will no doubt testify!!!

 

That having been said its not bad advice though

[gumpy 7]

I find a external HD to be very benifitual.

[gopher66ca 0]

I own and run my own IT company, as such, I am lucky to have lots of play toys, 2 seperate LAN's in my home and currently now 10 running machines, perhaps a couple more in boxes, there is even an Apple around somewhere in a box.

 

There is nothing, but nothing more comfortable than having your OS patched to current state and imaged onto a couple of dvd's with Acronis True Image along with the programs on that particular pc. Each of my machines have associated images in a carrier on my shelf.

 

Worst case scenario, twenty, twenty five minutes top, with OS, Office, documents and additional softwares all nice and tidy back to the way they were. I cannot remember the last time I was toasted hard, but I sleep a whole lot better.

 

Specifically, once these mods are imaged, I need never hunt for that hard to find aircraft ever again, voila, middle east wars, two minutes, no problems.

 

I do hope this is an indication of the release of something nice. That would mean a differential backup to come soon.

 

cool

 

gopher66ca

ittech.ferguson

[+Dave 2,318]

I do hope this is an indication of the release of something nice. That would mean a differential backup to come soon.

 

Do not read into to this at all. Maj Lee just had a serious HD crash and it reminded me to remind everyone to back their stuff up. No hidden meanings or anything like that. Just want to spread the word so no else has the same fate.

[+NeverEnough 78]

USAFMTL is a VERY wise man! Exactly a week ago I lost every one of my SFP1 downloads when doing a complete operating system re-install at the same time I was adding a new bigger hard-drive. I always have backup files on two different hard-drives, but had moved all the files onto a single drive in preparation for swapping out an old hard-drive. That was when the "impossible" happened!

Lots of the SFP1 material I had is no longer obtainable now. Diego's pilot skins, BadFrank's Mig Cockpit, High Res A-4 cockpits, and files from contributors long gone. Prowler very graciously hooked me up with a replacement of his BEAUTIFUL Banshee Package, which was extraordinarily nice of him!

It wasn't until I had lost all these files, that I realized how much of the truly great contributions made by some of the real legends of the modding community no longer are available anywhere!

Multiple hard-drives should normally keep you covered, but sometimes stuff happens. An external hard-drive would probably be great investment.

 

Yes, it could happen to you.....

[Wrench 9,487]

That 180 gig external USB drive was the best investment I've ever made!

 

Highly reccomended, that along with either CD or DVD backups.

 

I'd better get started....

 

Wrench

kevin stein

[Sgt.KAR98 0]

Ask a silly question (it is ''Brainless'') but why do we need to do this?

 

Is something to do with a 3rd Wire update or something?

 

 

He is going to release the F-22,but the folder will have a deadly virus that will delete your ThirdWire games!

[DWCAce 19]

I too go with the external HD and dvd route..... Thanks for the reminder!

[JediMaster 451]

Confucius say "Man who does not back up will be very sad."

[+Stary 2,426]

Even the recent backup won't help if you incidentally overwrite targets.ini you've been adding to for last two hours

[SayethWhaaaa 245]

Confucius say "Man who does not back up will be very sad."

 

Confucius say "Man who go through airport metal detector sideways is going to (Capital of Thailand)."

 

Also, USB/External HDs are much better to backup. Since I got my new DVD drive, it only reads around 1 in 3 DVDs now... You guys might wanna watch out for that when backing up.

[grumpapotamus 0]

I regularly back up on my old HD which I converted to a storage drive. After hearing your stories, I think I better do some dvd burning or get some external storage!

 

Thanks for the wisdom!!!

[DaSpungie 1]

ya ain't it the truth

at work we back every thing up to an external usb drive but

the bosses 3 year old found the drive ( a small pocket sized 80 gig)

and yelled down to his dad at the bottom of the stairs

and yup you know he pitched to his dad while his back was turned

so much for the back up drive

 

but we do have 2 others we use

and my external and a set of dvd's from may

[gopher66ca 0]

in a professional setting, backing up onto a external hard drive would probably get you fired one of these days. failure rates, especially among those drives in the student/travel market are well above those of a traditional drive. sometimes what is not actually termed "failure" just becomes...let's call it "unavailable".

 

yes I may be able to lift data off a drive that has gone south, but if a specialist is required, I outsource for that, and my disaster recovery person runs 150 to 350 (canadian) an hour.

 

for the cost of good quality backup media, disks all the way.

 

the costs of hard drives is front end loaded, for very little more, you can aquire much greater drive space. I do caution clients that it is not, how much drive can you afford, it is how much drive are you prepared to lose?

 

and eventually, you will. while drives become more and more reliable, I still lose at least one a year just to wear and tear. it may be too early to get into the newer no moving parts drives, but there are significant performance gains and technically longer life along with lower power cosumption on these drives. another year or so will tell if they will hit the consumer market big.

 

for now, I'll hang onto good media, and reliable imaging software.

 

depending upon an external drive is just not on.

 

gopher66ca

ittech.ferguson

Edited August 21, 2007 by gopher66ca