Comments on: Where do you keep your writing? http://www.atfmb.com/2009/09/16/where-do-you-keep-your-writing/ Patrick Hester's Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick Hester http://www.atfmb.com/2009/09/16/where-do-you-keep-your-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Patrick Hester Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:35:15 +0000 http://www.atfmb.com/?p=1412#comment-90 Clifton - No problem on the link. Glad to do it. As for Windows 7 - it is supposed to be worlds more stable than Vista. I know I am not a Windows/M$ fan in general, but I absolutely hate Vista (I ran a Win 2k box until they dragged it out of my hands kicking and screaming). Several people I work with use it (I'm on XP at work) and it is a nightmare for me. It doesn't help that a software plugin that we use is not supported in Vista (nor does the developer ever intend to have it supported in Vista because they don't feel Vista is a stable release), which sucks and causes me headaches... A story for another time... The point is that people don't think backing up their computers and then they get screwed. I would've been screwed if anything happened to that USB drive. It's sad too, because you can go out and buy a terabyte external drive (which I did) really cheap ($200 at BestBuy), hook it up to your Windows or Mac box and with a few clicks, setup automatic backups of your data. When I did support, people never wanted to spend the money to do backups, but they sure as heck wanted to bitch about it when they lost everything and there were no backups to recover from... ~P Clifton – No problem on the link. Glad to do it.

As for Windows 7 – it is supposed to be worlds more stable than Vista. I know I am not a Windows/M$ fan in general, but I absolutely hate Vista (I ran a Win 2k box until they dragged it out of my hands kicking and screaming). Several people I work with use it (I’m on XP at work) and it is a nightmare for me. It doesn’t help that a software plugin that we use is not supported in Vista (nor does the developer ever intend to have it supported in Vista because they don’t feel Vista is a stable release), which sucks and causes me headaches… A story for another time…

The point is that people don’t think backing up their computers and then they get screwed. I would’ve been screwed if anything happened to that USB drive. It’s sad too, because you can go out and buy a terabyte external drive (which I did) really cheap ($200 at BestBuy), hook it up to your Windows or Mac box and with a few clicks, setup automatic backups of your data.

When I did support, people never wanted to spend the money to do backups, but they sure as heck wanted to bitch about it when they lost everything and there were no backups to recover from…

~P

]]> By: Clifton Hill http://www.atfmb.com/2009/09/16/where-do-you-keep-your-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Clifton Hill Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:36:18 +0000 http://www.atfmb.com/?p=1412#comment-88 Yeah data loss is very scary. Especially if you have hundreds and more likely thousands of hours of your life tied into it. Not speaking that this is a good way of doing things, but it is how I am currently handling my own stuff: -I have a network hard drive that I back up some essentials to (like my main stories) a couple times a week. -All of my files are on my desktop PC with Vista (not recommended - Vista, not the PC, hopefully Windows 7 is as good as I hear, but cheap...) and shared to my laptop. -Laptop is where I work mostly, using the Offline Files capability with Windows on my laptop with XP to acess the shared files from my desktop that I have designated for that use. Which works great, and acts like an automatic backup of everything I have designated for Offline use since it is on both systems. On a side note, I tried using the Briefcase feature, which may have worked once long ago, but is atrocious now, I actually had some test data loss because of it (I think it was Vista's fault). -Occassionally I do an actual back up of everything to the network HD or to DVD-RW media. Never frequently enough though. Well that is my method and I certainly hope it keeps me from losing anything. Thanks for the link on your blog by the way, I see I'm mentioned under the Writer Blogs category. I'll have to put a section for that into my blog one of these days as well. Yeah data loss is very scary. Especially if you have hundreds and more likely thousands of hours of your life tied into it. Not speaking that this is a good way of doing things, but it is how I am currently handling my own stuff:
-I have a network hard drive that I back up some essentials to (like my main stories) a couple times a week.
-All of my files are on my desktop PC with Vista (not recommended – Vista, not the PC, hopefully Windows 7 is as good as I hear, but cheap…) and shared to my laptop.
-Laptop is where I work mostly, using the Offline Files capability with Windows on my laptop with XP to acess the shared files from my desktop that I have designated for that use. Which works great, and acts like an automatic backup of everything I have designated for Offline use since it is on both systems. On a side note, I tried using the Briefcase feature, which may have worked once long ago, but is atrocious now, I actually had some test data loss because of it (I think it was Vista’s fault).
-Occassionally I do an actual back up of everything to the network HD or to DVD-RW media. Never frequently enough though.

Well that is my method and I certainly hope it keeps me from losing anything. Thanks for the link on your blog by the way, I see I’m mentioned under the Writer Blogs category. I’ll have to put a section for that into my blog one of these days as well.

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