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Thread: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
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2006-03-09, 01:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2005
Tragedy Strikes another Comic
Well, not a death or anything, but definitely "omg this sucks hardcore" for GUComics. He lost ALL of his originals of his comics when his back-up failed while restoring his "working" computer.
From the link:
GU down for I don't know how long...
It's all gone, all 6 years of it... and all my commissions, emails, contacts...
I'm devastated. But, currently looking for answers.
With any luck I'll have the name of a good datarecovery specialist before the day is out. And, I won't get news that it's gone forever or that it's going to cost me ten thousand dollars.
That being said....
What I had for backing up my computer was a Maxtor 300Gig one touch system. When I first plugged it in everything was happy. So, I started moving stuff over to my freshly upgraded system. Halfway through reading one of the directories disaster struck. A little notification popped up telling me there was an error. From that point on the drive has been telling that there is a corrupted filestructure and that the volume is no longer readable.
Apparently backing up your computer isn't even safe.
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2006-03-09, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2005
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- Some dungeon, somewhere.
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
That's been updated - he didn't lose as much as he thought he did.
But it's a very important lesson for anyone who makes their living with computers, cause he sure as heck could have.
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2006-03-09, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2005
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- Heima
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
Originally Posted by Greebo
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2006-03-09, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2005
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- Sweden
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
The comic's are still on the site, right?
Is the originals important? What is that, early versions of the comic's?
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2006-03-09, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2005
Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
Originally Posted by Sylian
Also, since The Giant uses so many pre-built poses for his comics, re-building his "database" of them would be extremely time-consuming, and it'd take MUCH longer to lay out each new comic than what it currently does.
Keeping your ORIGINAL sources is always important.
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2006-03-09, 06:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2006
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- Sheffield, England
Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
One thing even more important is to make sure that you keep backups in different physical locations. There's no point in backing up onto different tapes, or hard drives, or whatever if they all get destroyed in the same fire. One of the projects that I work on, I even go far enough as to store backups on a server in a different country (Live server is in the UK, backups go on the webserver which is hosted in the US)
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2006-03-09, 07:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2005
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- Cior Barr
Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
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2006-03-09, 07:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2005
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- Milton Keynes, UK
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
I once lost a year's work inexplicably. I mean it just disappeared overnight, along with the directory it was in. The memory it had once inhabited was over-written and no undelete utility in the world could bring it back.
Now, all important work is backed up on two hard-drives, in two pcs, then on a USB stick. That makes 4 copies of the file.I played: Arin of the Silver Tongue, Barri Poari
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2006-03-09, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2006
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- Knoxville, TN
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
We were using Microsoft Access in one of my classes and I somehow managed to crash the server from my terminal (the main computer is in a different room) It took a good couple of minutes to get the now cleared database back up, and that was only because my neighbor accidentally saved a copy onto his computer.
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2006-03-12, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2005
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- Montreal, Quebec
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Re: Tragedy Strikes another Comic
I work as an IT consultant and broker for hardware, software, networking...the whole kit and kaboodle.
Whenever I have a client tell me that they want to buy a new server, my first question to them is:
How are you backing up this server?
It's shocking how many businesses still don't do regular back-ups of their data.What Would Jack Bauer Do?