GCU Forum - Backing up work

Linda_132742 Gold Member artist Posts: 1796	Backing up work Feb 2^nd, 2008, 5:45am How often do others back up their work on their computers. Should I be putting everything on discs?
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phrank_131619 Full Member artist Posts: 200	Re: Backing up work Reply #1 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 7:24am ALWAYS!...capt.
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Wendy_132744 Junior Member artist Posts: 79	Re: Backing up work Reply #2 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 7:28am Oh yes, you never know when something will crash. All my electronic pics (I did a few) are on disc as are photos. All my doodles are on paper in a file. I colour them in on the computer so that is easy enough to re-do should the unexpected happen!
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Yassine_132473 Full Member artist Posts: 119	Re: Backing up work Reply #3 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 9:18am Hi Linda ! It's better to have many hard disks drive (HDD). Don't place your cards on the hard disk drive system because if it crashes, you'll lose your disk system informations and not the other (independants) hard disks. Ya
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Reply #4 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 9:31am

Seems like we discussed this before. I recall mentioning that I do have a TON of disks burnt with my files on them. But I have many more to burn. Is there ANY WAY to reduce the amount of disks? Because If I shrink the size of a file, then when I restore it to it's original size again it will distort. Sad

Any way to get around that? I am all EARS

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phrank_131619 Full Member artist Posts: 200	Re: Backing up work Reply #5 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 9:39am Hi Cara... The best thing to do for that. is a WB My Book Premium 500GB external Hard Drive, with automatc Back up... You can hold thousands of pictures and files here...for a mere $139.00... No more Discs lying around...and if your system crashes, everything is safe...capt.
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Reply #6 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 11:30am

WHAT? WHAT? WHAT?...........
I'm all ears! What is this and how and where do I get it???
Thanks so much for a piece of information that just might save my life!
I try to back up my work, but of course am never completely caught up. And with thousands of photos....Well, suffice it to say that I have lost a lot of my work in the past with two computer crashes...
Thanks!
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Quote from phrank_131619 on Feb 2^nd, 2008, 9:39am:

Hi Cara... The best thing to do for that. is a WB My Book Premium 500GB external Hard Drive, with automatc Back up... You can hold thousands of pictures and files here...for a mere $139.00... No more Discs lying around...and if your system crashes, everything is safe...capt.

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Cara_131386 Senior Member artist Posts: 428	Re: Backing up work Reply #7 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:13pm Wow thanks Phrank! That sounds like what I would be needing, and I have a birthday coming up LOL...hehehe thank you!
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Reply #8 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:16pm

Quote from phrank_131619 on Feb 2^nd, 2008, 9:39am:

Hi Cara... The best thing to do for that. is a WB My Book Premium 500GB external Hard Drive, with automatc Back up... You can hold thousands of pictures and files here...for a mere $139.00... No more Discs lying around...and if your system crashes, everything is safe...capt.

Yeah, but... What is to say this external hard drive won't crash and burn? Is there a guarantee, or is it an illusion of security? Granted it would be great to have one place instead of 20 thousand double layer dvd's that are only readable on the computer one had created them on, talk about a problem there, to store ALL my images! I'm working on it! But how reliable is this external drive, what does WB stand for, and where does one buy this creature of false security. undecided

Thanks for your help phrank!

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Reply #9 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:41pm

Hi Shari...The Great thing about having an External Storage drive, is after you download all your files, pictures ..etc. You UNPLUG it from the computer...So if your computer crashes or theres a storm and a huge power surge, your storage device has nothing to do with the computer. They are not connected...Get It..500 GB's is more than enough to store pictures. I have a 180 GB storage and Its holding 4 thousand+ pictures right now and I still have about 50 Gb's unused..Do the Math everyone..and with the lower cost of storage these days I will be trading mine in for at LEAST 500 GB's..You can order from the net @ www.Tigerdirect.com, or better still, find a Best Buy, Or Frys Electronics near your Neigborhood...and take it home the same day. They generally plug righ tinto your USB port. No Hassle or Hi-Tech instructions...Plug in,DownLoad, Unplug, put it away for that rainy day...capt.

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phrank_131619 Full Member artist Posts: 200	Re: Backing up work Reply #10 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:46pm Sorry Everyone...There was a comma in the Link I gave it doesn't work.. so here it is again... www.tigerdirect.com
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Linda_132742 Gold Member artist Posts: 1796	Re: Backing up work Reply #11 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:49pm Thanks, Phrank, I'm going to Best Buy ASAP to get one. I appreciate the tip. Linda
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phrank_131619 Full Member artist Posts: 200	Re: Backing up work Reply #12 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:49pm Scuse me again.. When you get to Tigerdirect on the left hand side click on Harddrives, then scroll down to WD (Western Digital) My Book Premium...capt.
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Reply #13 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:51pm

Quote from phrank_131619 on Feb 2^nd, 2008, 12:41pm:

Hi Shari...The Great thing about having an External Storage drive, is after you download all your files, pictures ..etc. You UNPLUG it from the computer...So if your computer crashes or theres a storm and a huge power surge, your storage device has nothing to do with the computer. They are not connected...Get It..500 GB's is more than enough to store pictures. I have a 180 GB storage and Its holding 4 thousand+ pictures right now and I still have about 50 Gb's unused..Do the Math everyone..and with the lower cost of storage these days I will be trading mine in for at LEAST 500 GB's..You can order from the net @ www.Tigerdirect.com, or better still, find a Best Buy, Or Frys Electronics near your Neigborhood...and take it home the same day. They generally plug righ tinto your USB port. No Hassle or Hi-Tech instructions...Plug in,DownLoad, Unplug, put it away for that rainy day...capt.

Sounds good to me! For that size, I can backup my entire 250 GB which is only used up on 60gb so far for a long time and I wouldn't even have to zip anything down. I like fully extracted files to work with much better than backed up zipped files.

This is a task for Super Bowl Sunday before the game, off to Frys we go! Then I don't have to worry what computer I hook up to, and it will be able to be read from any computer, yes? no?

Also, what does WB stand for?!?!

Thanks for all your great info!

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Reply #14 - Feb 2^nd, 2008, 1:00pm

Hi Shari... It will work with any computer as long as its not ancient..LOL... WD is the brand name, Western Digital. You can Google them...When You plug into you computer, Make sure its OFF First, then when your computer comes on, get to your desktop, click on My Computer, and the Storage device will show up as E: Removable Drive... Thats if you only have one drive which is normal..If you have two drives , Like I do, it will be F: and so on..Drive D: should be your DVD or CD Drive Just click on the New Drive and start storing..capt.

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