Back up your data, folks...

I got an external harddrive specifically so that I could backup my school work. The problem is, I only used it for about a year or so and it just kinda sits there now. I keep telling myself I really should back my stuff up, but I never get around to it.

Just like to point out, that when you make a thread Cult, and it says "Back up your data, folks..." it sounds like something bad has happened. Just saying. Made me panic a bit.

You should try to use data recovery software, you can recover files even after hdd format! It might do wonders for you!

I once lost 8 gigs of text documents. Alll my novels andcrazy rantings du to a failed hard drive.
Three years later I got only 6 back due to a forgotten backup.

My external HDD is all full up atm ;P

Ouch that is bad but at least u still have something left. Btw your link isnt working for me :/

Ouch! It's painful to lose any data, but losing many months of work...

BTW, not my kind of music, but it's still impressive, especially for an intro from several months ago. You must have put lots of time into this project, and I'm really sorry you lost it. As others said, try to get someone to salvage what is possible to salvage from the disk.

Aye, It is painful to lose data like that, my HDD recently broke, brought down along with it almost $100 worth of work and data, sniff.
Anyway, downloading the file now, looks interesting.

I remember when my old hard drive died. All that photoshop work gone, all those custom brushes as well.
God damn it. ;_;

I'm not real keen on all the music you used, but, personal tastes aside, it sounded well put together. I now feel the strong urge to back up my data, though. It's going to be a serious project, though. I'm sure I have over half a TB at least by now, and it's not even all organized properly (another project I've been putting off). I'd also like to use a medium that's not subject to corruption due to EM sources. Do SSHD's fit that bill? Or is there at least something that can hold more data than freaking DVD's? I'm not really happy with the idea of having to burn 100+ of those things.

A bummer indeed. With HDD prices skyrocketed it's not viable to invest in physical storage. Filehosts whose business models relied on downloads are taking heat now, leaving only cloud services as decent options. The best I've found starts at 100GB and goes up to 200 via referrals. Hardly enough.

Nice mix btw. :)

Quite impressed with the work you did manage to save.
You should find the impulse to keep it up.

I lost about 200 movies when my hard drive failed. It was a mechanical failure so it was impossible to retrieve the lost files.

I've had several HDD crash and/or mechanically die, you'll get over it but it does suck ass. Good luck on the mix!

i have a backup from my backup stored in a titanium plated box, hidden in secret antiatomic bunker near Berlin xD

Most average people who only use computers for e-mail and browsing know to backup. If you're doing any sort of multimedia editing you're a fool for not having a RAID array or at least an extra HDD to backup to.

I have a lot of important data on my pc, and if my HDD fail my job and everything will fail. I use one external HDD for backup files but didn't use it for a while. You reminded me to do a backup again soon.

DropBox - Works Wonders :D

No referrals, please.

Spideroak is a good dropbox alternative. It focuses on security, rather than dropbox.
And, it gives more space than dropbox, at cheaper prices.
Referrals get +1gb
Spideroak

Also, if you click "Buy More Space"
Account type Change
promotion code: WORLDBACKUPDAY

You can get a base 5gb account, instead of the default 2gb.
Add the +1gb from being referred, and you would be at 6gb.

I feel sorry for your lost data and work. The mix is quite good. I enjoy it.

Last time i lost my HD data i lost at least half of my drawings (ones that were sold/given away), all of my photoshops (the ones i had uploaded were low resolution), and some minor programming stuff.
I freaked out for at least 2 or 3 hours, as those drawings and photoshops were meant to go to a small competition, and maybe even win....

I know the feeling.....

Also i heard your demo, and its quite nice to hear different tempo changes and combinations instead of the typical BOOM BOOM BOOM i've heard in some dj's work, so please keep working on it, so far its looking amazingly well =D

PD: some parts reminded me of VVVVVVVV soundtrack, and just for that, i tip my hat off.

This thread gave me the willpower to back up my stuff. Sorry you lost everything :(.

Sorry to hear that, Cult. I'm listening it now and it kicks ass. Would have made a great mix.

Yeah, my computer broke some time ago, too and I lost all my Skyrim and Minecraft Saves :O ( I had a backup of almost everything else... )