Not really, but you could lose yours if you don't backup So stop hanging around and go do it now before it's too late.
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Not really, but you could lose yours if you don't backup So stop hanging around and go do it now before it's too late.
I saw this coming.....you never fooled me. :D
Mine are done, i thoroughly recommend having a throwaway install, and with data on DVD's safely stored you can sit back, relax, and thrash away. (Acronis True Image helped a bit)
Liam
Off the hdd and onto Data dvds everyone is where mine went.
Philgo strikes again!!! :eek:
And pay attention to what he says if you care about your memories and other stuff on your PC! :rolleyes:
I did lose all my photos once. To be more accurate the chemist did when it lost my 35mm roll. Never got over that, so how bad would it be to lose thousands of photos off your HDD.Quote:
Originally Posted by liam858
It's true, I should do that. I mean I could easily fit all of em on one DVD but I never bother. Thanks for the impetus, Philgo, I'll do it today.
Just backed up all my daughter's photos onto a dual-layer DVD (yeah....that many). As Ben Franklin once said, "Backing up your data always gives the warm and fuzzy feeling" (or something like that).
Sure hope Philgo never really looses his files and needs help;)
Just in the last week, I've had 2 customers who have lost ALL their data because their hard disks failed and had not backed up.
FAQ: Backing Up
And for very important stuff, like those photos that can never be replaced, back up to more than one place. Such as to an external drive and a DVDR. Or to two different brands of DVDR, and keep them in different places.
Also, check that the backups are OK from time to time - there are many horror stories around of people finding that the backup that they thought they had was corrupted or otherwise unusable :eek:
I saw the title of the post, but didn't pay attention to the poster...
Philgo ( the friendly nagger ;) ) got me again! :)
Honestly, I'm glad it wasn't someone posting that had lost all of their pics.
If it had been, I have a list of witty (and some crude) criticisms for $3.95 each that people here could have used.....Quote:
Originally Posted by GetaGrrrip
:cool: :D
And here is a very salutory lesson - a guy who made the backups and then got those stolen too :eek:
Francis Ford Coppola wants his data back
Sure proves the point of getting your backups off site.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks
I've been putting it off for months and you just convinced me. ;)
I'm burning them on my family PC with my old DVD burner. How much data can I burn to a DVD? (I thought I remember 4.5 or 6 gig??)
Other question, I bought a new LiteOn with Dual layer and Lightscribe for another PC. How big are the Dual Layer DVDs? What do I need to use the Lightscribe? I currently have Nero6.5 on that PC.
Thanks again for reminding me. I have it backed up to a second HDD, but I've been meaning to backing it up to DVDs and storing them at work.
:D
Standard DVDs hold 4.7GB (that is decimal GB, Windows will report the capacity as 4.58GB).
IIRC dual lkayer discs are 8.5GB. They are usually very expensive though, so it would probably be a lot more economical to use normal ones.
If you have a lightsscribe burner then you just need to buy some lightscribe discs. I don't know about the software required though - I've never used it myself.
Thanks Super, I was figuring 4.5 gig when I burned my pictures last night. (all 3 DVDs are now safely at work and I do feel comforted in the fact that I have full offsite backup now).
I thought I heard that the dual layers were pricey, just confirms my justification to use the regular stuff.
I need to do some more research on the Lightscribe, I didn't see much information on it in the Burner manual.
Does anyone know if they make Lightsribe CDs? Might be cool for burning my music for listening in the car.
Lightscribe CDs are certainly available on this side of the pond:
http://www.cd-rmedia.co.uk/CD-R-80mi...ibe-c-368.html
Sound advice. Unfortunately, I recently *did* lose a good chunk of vacation photos :mad: . Dumped them to my hard drive, went and filled up another memory card worth of photos a few days later. Before I had time to make a CD backup, my HD messed up :eek: and I lost the entire first batch :( , along with all the edited photos I had worked on. My addition (and it may have already been stated) - don't erase that memory card until you've made *at least* two backups of your images, because once they're gone, they're gone!
Very good advice indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by spragers2
just buy a hard drive of the same size as the one on ur pc, its a good investment, just boot of a utility cd and copy the whole drive over. store this hard drive somewhere safe and backup as frequently as you want, then youll be ready when it hits the fan
You need Lightscribe DVD's to burn a picture on the disc. Most newer (Some versions of 6 and up)versions of Nero come with a Lightscribe module.