My Dio Story is dust.
 

My hard drive crashed last week. I lost everything, including all the pictures I have taken over the last 3 years or so. Toys, family, dogs, unmentionables, everything. I was pretty close to finishing my take on "Save Outrider." I am bummed out about it. I have a few shots on flickr and photobucket that I have not shown here, so I may put them up. Anyway, even though I had shot most of it, it really wasn't what I thought it was going to be. No photoshop is pretty limiting when you need a firefight or an explosion or something. A story to me is more about motivation and emotion anyway, so BOOOM! is not super important to me. I am thinking of a new one, with an idea ripped off from an old Joe cartoon idea that never saw the light of day.

That's about seventeen different kinds of suck, dude. I had been working a novel for about two years when the same thing happened to me. Fortunately I had sent it to a friend of mine an he just never deleted the e-mail. Backed up everything since then.

I started backing up everything last year after my wifes comp drive died with alot of our photos from the early 2000's. I had some of it backed up then but nowhere near what we lost.

Sorry to hear that TT. Maybe you could download the "unmentionables" again.

What is the best way to backup?

I backup straight to DVD. The most important stuff--source code, etc--I store offsite in a more secure location.

I feel your pain, I lost a bunch of stuff a couple of months ago like that.




Me, I now use an external hard drive and CDs.

I am backing up everything I got first thing tomorrow!

Best oprion, I lost a bunch of stuff for a dio several years ago, however it made me reinvent my ways of looking at things and now I feel I am doing stuff much better now. Then again might be my own opinon.

That is a genuine tragedy. That's why I back up everything to an external hard drive every week without fail. You can never be too sure.