Why do I keep doing this?

[garnigal]

I have a USB key that I keep all of my writing on. I've had hard drives crash and lost games and writing, so I figured the USB key was safer. And it was. It's just... I've had it for at least 4 years, and I'd been thinking about backing it up. As soon as I start thinking about it, it's too late.

And it's too late.

I got copies of everything I've posted on tamingthemuse and the stuff I'd posted on open_on_sunday this year, and I have most of last year's drabbles from open on sunday (nothing after July though, and I'm too lazy to look for them right now). I have most of the finished stuff on my laptop, so in terms of writing it's not too bad. I'm sure I'll remember more stuff as the evening progresses though.

What tics me off is losing the free X-stitch patterns I'd downloaded, some of which were limited time offers. Oh well, that's just a sign to do more knitting. ;)

And now I'm going to back up my laptop hard drive and start online shopping for USB keys. Oh, and burn all my photos to disk (thank god that's not what died!)

Comments

[baensidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Sadly, it seems that no matter how much you back something up, it will still find a way to get lost. -_- Sorry, man; I hope you manage to recover most of it?

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Most of it, including all my unfinished Nanos. :)

Fact is, I do it to myself by not maintaining multiple copies. I can't get too upset. And hey. New USB key, with more than 256 MB on it.

... oops, wrong login.

[baensidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh, good; glad to hear it!

And ooh, new toy. ;) I recently invested in an external drive, so it's currently serving all of my backing-up needs-- and while I know that it's just as likely to fail as anything else, given time, I still feel better. I've had... three? complete computer failures in my time, plus any number of back-up disks that randomly decided not to read, so anything that offers a little more security is good.

Re: ... oops, wrong login.

[garnigal.livejournal.com]

Well, with any luck, the internal and external drives will fail at different times. At one point, we had a file server and I was using that, but the files got out of sync and of course the one that failed was the one that had the up to date files.

Re: ... oops, wrong login.

[baensidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course!