Reading Magnifico's journal

. . . but I've returned, all the same. I haven't been on Netalive in a while because of school and band and god only knows what else, but I'm taking advantage of my sickday by coming back to NAO.

In general, I frequent two forums; one is a hang-out for people I hang out with in real life, many of whom I see every day, and it sort of restricts what I can and cannot say. Here, though, I don't feel any sort of societal pressure to hold anything in, because (excluding Anduril, who I believe has dropped off the radar) I don't know anybody here in real life.

In other news, my new hard drive still hasn't been reinstalled; on the last one, it completely crashed, but not before the partition magically disappeared. I lost a lot of writings, a lot of music, and a lot of websites that I probably won't be able to find again, However, I was fortunate enough to find about two dozen songs, thanks to BeSonic and this guy, as well as a number of CD-Rs that have been hanging out under a bookshelf. Happy day.

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I lost a lot of writings, a lot of music, and a lot of websites that I probably won't be able to find again

I'm sorry about your loss. I've been there too many times already.

A final hard drive scare last week was the straw that broke the camel's back and finally made me invest € 150 into a backup solution that I'm content with. Should you ever sit on 150 bucks you don't know where to spend, maybe it's something for you.

What I did was buy one of these external harddrives which you can hook up to your PC via Firewire or USB 2. I wrote a small program that looks at all my folders with relevant data scattered on my "real" hard disks and writes a simple copy to the external drive (afterwards it just copies changed files).

I simply press the shiny blue button on my external drive to have the program carry out its task and I shall fear a hard drive crash no more. It's not such a pain in the ass as with CDRs and for the first time I get to backup the really huge folders (like my music).

'Yeah, That's what Jesus would do. Jesus would bomb Afghanistan. Yeah.' - snowlion

Do the same, only with a second internal harddisk. I keep all my important data on one drive, so I just have to backup this.

'Repent, Harlequin!' said the Ticktockman. 'Get stuffed!' the Harlequin replied, sneering.

WinRAR and a DVD toaster. Can't beat that duo. :-P

Except for one situation. Does anybody know of an easy & inexpensive way to back up 300 Gigs of multimedia (audio/video) data? (Note the "inexpensive" - thus, most tape drives don't qualify)

(On a side note, hello Magnifico!)

"*sigh* Some men are really hard to manipulate!" - Orchid

Well, I havent disappeared completely...

"It was not God who created man, but man who created God." --Santa Caserio