re: backing up data (ot)

[andrewduke@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, chmafu nocords wrote:

just to concur with what wesley said and add a bit; i
find the best thing is to have programs on the laptop
itself, samples on an external drive, and have the
samples from the external drive backed up on CDRs; this
summer I had my laptop die so close to a gig that I got
it back fixed--literally--two hours before the gig (I
had rented a backup laptop just in case mine wasn't
fixed in time). I spent the two hours before the gig
reloading my sound programs back onto the laptop, then
just plugged in my external drive and was good to go.
Should the external drive die, I have the samples
backed up on CDRs (and could reload the samples from
the CDRs onto the laptop for a last minute fix or onto
a new external drive in the long term).  Now, of
course, this is perfect in theory, but in reality it
means regularly burning samples to CDRs to be failsafe,
and I must admit I'm a bit slack in that area. :) Much
more fun to be working on new sounds and songs then to
be backing up.  Andrew

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