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vladazhael
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For passwords, I usually just try to remember my own mental patterns, which is a dubious strategy at best.
For backup, I've been *trying* to use my boyfriend's second hard drive, but since he went and switched back to Linux a week after I started that *and* keeps turning his system off before I can do anything anyway, that hasn't been working. ("Oh, sure! I'll let you piggyback off my system since your hard drive is dying and you can't afford a new one. It'll be great! *grumble*) Beyond that, I've just been using Google Documents, since there's not all that much I need to store.
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RobinKa
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Passwords? I remember them.
Yay me 
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lissaselves
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| RobinKa wrote: | Passwords? I remember them.
Yay me |
Think this is the answer that impresses me the most - lol.
Vlad, how about Skydrive or something like that? lets you store 5GB files. And it's free. Not that I know much about it, though; don't want to sound like a commercial! |
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lissaselves
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| Sulriel wrote: | | NeumeIndil wrote: | Passwords etc. go on a 3"x5" card that I tape to my desk/wall. (Can't use an emailed password if you can't get into the email account, right?  ) Stories etc. are automatically backed up in a different file than the one they're saved to (incase an individual file is corrupted by a bad save, etc.) and dumped onto a USB drive and/or CD every couple of months.
Of course, my hard drive had to die right before my 8 week back up point last month, so I lost at least 1 chapter of the Gamling/Morwen stuff and a bunch of other little tidbits (like all the character lists for the Breaking Type Challenge), but my Taller Half slaved my hard drive to his and salvaged most of it. |
I've been using an automatic online backup system. mozy. I don't like giving anything access to my system, but it's unlimitied storage for $4.95/month and it backs up everyfile that's been changed every 24 hours. |
You guys are obviously pros! I'm seriously impressed. |
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vladazhael
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| lissaselves wrote: | | RobinKa wrote: | Passwords? I remember them.
Yay me |
Think this is the answer that impresses me the most - lol.
Vlad, how about Skydrive or something like that? lets you store 5GB files. And it's free. Not that I know much about it, though; don't want to sound like a commercial! |
From what I can tell it looks to be a similar service to Google Documents, and since I already use gmail regularly as opposed to MSN, that's probably more convenient for me. But I'll certainly look into Skydrive - thanks!
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Robbie
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Be VERY careful of free backup. How many companies do you know that go belly up ecuase they have a slack business plan and don't make enough money?
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We have FOUR backups running for this site - can't explicitly trust any of them as I've seen too many hand disks go bang, backup files not work when you need them etc.
In case you're wondering:
- The server is fitted with RAID so carries a copy of the data on a second hard disk. If one fails, the other continues. If the data gets corrupted, however, that's no good as the corruption gets copied, so...
- The server also has a backup running nightly. I can't monitor that. Although it's not let me down yet, but they might sometime, so....
- We use a commercial automated backup system backing onto a different server - I can monitor those backups so much happier, but, just in case...
- Back up to hard disk here when I remember to.
- (Plus our hard disks here are backed up to an server sitting on one of the out-buildings on an nightly basis, so if the house got burgled, we should be OK too.)
Overkill? Probably, but hopefully we won't let you down!
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lissaselves
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Wow, Rob - you have certainly gone to great extents to protect the data; what a very thorough back-up strategy!!!
You know, when my comp crashed a while back, I was so happy that most of my stories had been posted on GoI for 'critters' - at least they were safe!
*goes to make back-up ...* |
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Viv
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| Robbie wrote: |
Overkill? Probably, but hopefully we won't let you down! |
I imagine all this costs a bit, too.
Also, this site has a nifty donation utility. |
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dolarabee
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| Viv wrote: | I imagine all this costs a bit, too.
Also, this site has a nifty donation utility. |
LOL! Viv, what would we do without you!
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NeumeIndil
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Having seen just how much can go wrong with these things, I don't think that's overkill at all Rob. You guys run a business; a viral attack, etc. could cost you a butt load of money, and time, and frustration. That's far more important than my smut writing! 
You guys are obviously pros! I'm seriously impressed.
I learned it the hard way Lissa. I had a thesis draft due right before my 3rd year of Univ. was out. Guess what I was in the middle of writing on a laptop when I spilled an entire 16 oz glass of grape juice directly into the keyboard?  In 10 seconds, it became a $1200 paperweight. So I spent every waking moment of that summer when I wasn't working on a show re-writing the whole thing from an old save to the campus server and my few hand-written notes. Campus librarians knew me by name and how I took my Starbucks order by the middle of June. I started writing fan fic to keep myself from going nuts trying to re-write that much original fic and non-fic prose in less than 4 months.
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lissaselves
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | I had a thesis draft due right before my 3rd year of Univ. was out. Guess what I was in the middle of writing on a laptop when I spilled an entire 16 oz glass of grape juice directly into the keyboard? In 10 seconds, it became a $1200 paperweight. |
Oh dear! *pushes glass away from comp*
You must have been devastated! Good thing you managed to rewrite it.
Yep, back-ups are a good thing. |
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vladazhael
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | ...when I spilled an entire 16 oz glass of grape juice directly into the keyboard? In 10 seconds, it became a $1200 paperweight. |
And there's argument #1 for vlad *not* buying a laptop when the current beast finally croaks...
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