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My Dio Story is dust.

12-10-2009, 11:29 PM	#1
ThinkTank Unmasked Offline --> Posts: 4,282 --> Join Date: Feb 2008	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. __________________ thinktankproduction.com

12-11-2009, 05:06 AM	#2
Otto the Otter "Toot" Spelled inside out Offline --> Posts: 2,297 --> Join Date: Oct 2009	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. __________________ The United States will conquer Terrorism with the help of God and a few Marines. Some people, when trying to avoid thinking about those things that cause them pain, turn to drink, or perhaps food, or drugs... I turn not to any of those... I collect action figures, turning my mind to the hunt, so that I might find a mote of peace... Over the years, I've found that alcoholism is much more socially acceptable by far.

12-11-2009, 05:25 AM	#3
rnrhero I'm Really Cool. Offline --> Posts: 1,162 --> Join Date: Apr 2005	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. __________________ "Better to fight for something than live for nothing." -- George S. Patton My Flickr My Want List My Photography Page

12-11-2009, 07:23 AM	#4
Rambo ARAH for O-ringers Offline --> Posts: 6,074 --> Join Date: Dec 2007	Sorry to hear that TT. Maybe you could download the "unmentionables" again. What is the best way to backup? __________________ HEROES DON'T DIE, THEY JUST RELOAD

12-11-2009, 07:41 AM

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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.

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12-11-2009, 08:51 AM

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

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What is the best way to backup?

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

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12-11-2009, 09:31 AM	#7
Trench-Viper Veteran Offline --> Posts: 6,048 --> Join Date: Jun 2008	I am backing up everything I got first thing tomorrow!

12-11-2009, 10:06 AM

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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.

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12-11-2009, 11:38 AM	#9
lehsreh G.I. Smurf Offline --> Posts: 3,446 --> Join Date: Jan 2006	LOL...LOL...LOL sorry for laughing, its a sad laugh of knowing the feeling. the reason i say this is i had the same thing happen about 2 months ago. lost everything and i was working on 3 different dios and had a 4th all but finished. now i dont know what i will do, if i can ever get back into dios again. and as you said, i not only lost that but all the pictures and videos of me and my g/f, all my family and the birthdays and chrsitmas from last year. i have a external HD now, but that does little good.

12-11-2009, 12:30 PM	#10
Outrider It's been a great ride! Offline --> Posts: 14,302 --> Join Date: Jun 2005	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. __________________ "The future's uncertain and the end is always near." - The Doors "Roadhouse Blues".