tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post116197381987737419..comments2023-11-07T21:12:19.852-06:00Comments on Wyrdsmiths: Backup!tate hallawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06631759014508937940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-1162094921371915562006-10-28T23:08:00.000-05:002006-10-28T23:08:00.000-05:00Back when I was in college, I heard Maxine Hong Ki...Back when I was in college, I heard Maxine Hong Kingston read an excerpt from her book, "The Fifth Book of Peace," where she described the destruction of the previous version of the book manuscript in the fires that swept through Oakland in the early 1990s. Her house was completely destroyed; literally nothing was left. I took this story to heart and have made off-site backups of creative work ever since.<BR/><BR/>I e-mail everything to my father, who backs it up to his own hard drive (which he then backs up religiously to tape or CD-ROM or something).<BR/><BR/>When my mother was dissertating, she had printouts of everything plus a backup on a floppy disk or maybe tape (this was in the late 1980s) plus they put a new printout plus extra disk backup into their <I>safety deposit box</I> every week.Naomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235581646855322094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-1161980657127916072006-10-27T15:24:00.000-05:002006-10-27T15:24:00.000-05:00Also use a USB flash drive, which is duplicately s...<I>Also use a USB flash drive, which is duplicately stored on my private section of my work computer.</I><BR/><BR/>Thing about those, though, is that they <I>do</I> wear out over time. My guru's been through five this last year. :eye roll:~ Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791869629938128432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32085591.post-1161980578027826112006-10-27T15:22:00.000-05:002006-10-27T15:22:00.000-05:00I lost everything on my spare hard drive back in S...I lost everything on my spare hard drive back in September. My computer guru who's usually able to recover my stuff when I crash wasn't able to save one file - the whole thing was a loss. <BR/><BR/>I lost pictures of my kids, my cat, my husband. I lost all of my <I>Apex Digest</I> files, all of my writing, all of my notes. I've been in a real tizzy trying to get everything back. <BR/><BR/>Luckily, I had my third book in a printout and have been taking the last week typing it all back in. The sad thing about that is that I've lost several scenes, as I didn't have printouts of those. I remember some of what needs to be rewritten, but what I've redone so far just isn't coming out the same. :(<BR/><BR/>The real (word I can't say here) about the whole thing is that I backup everything personal once a week onto cd. Come to find out, my last backup didn't take because the burner had gone bad on me. :headdesk:<BR/><BR/>So now I've lost a hard drive and a cd-rw. For Yule this year, I'm buying myself a dvd-rw and a new motherboard...~ Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791869629938128432noreply@blogger.com