It seemed important--

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I had a total disaster recently,,
17 years of family/computer history lost due to ----- The Perfect PC Storm

anyway this isnt about that.
As this is a post in The Parking Lot,
its about 17 years of games being lost--
hundreds of GB's worth of games,, and at least (luckily?) a couple of hundred GB's from STEAM--

I am lucky at the moment I have a 1K GB a month limit,,
but--
After looking through my list,,
am I ever going to play them all again?
Steam allows you to split some of your games into a Favourites folder,,

and I have re-downloaded some favourites,,,

but its a drop in the bucket.

since my PC Perfect Storm I have been playing DoomII wads through ZDoom and having a ball,, partly because thats all my mighty Acer Aspire M1900 will play-- but it seems I am happy to regress to a previous time where I dont have to worry about how happy my colony's are in Fallout4

[cripesamighty]

I lost over 15 years worth of stuff a few years ago. For me it was like losing part of your soul. The irreplaceable things I really miss is a whole bunch of family history stuff recorded for posterity. It took a long time to collate from many sources and I was almost ready to surprise my folks with it. Some days it bugs the hell out of me that it's gone. Boy, do I feel your pain!

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Yea, some of the games are easily replaceable,, just DL them again,,
but yep, its all the rest thats irreplaceable,, Inc has recommended a place in Brisbane to recover the data,,
I hope to do that in the new year,,;)

[Tombie]

Back ups people.

External Drives are dirt cheap now....

I can't stress this enough...

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Had that.
The "storm" hit when the the backup was connected. :angel:

I said it was perfect;):(
motherboard
psu
video card
3 HDD's
1 ssd(data only,, aparently--)

[Tombie]

Go NAS back ups as well..

I do removable and NAS of my 3 computers.
And some material is cloud stored as well.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

more perfection,,
two months of sorting out a NAS,,
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/computers/239942-storage.html

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/computers/242792-installing-freenas.html

I'm not arguing Mike,, just explaining,,

[Tombie]

Bloody hell Pedro... what the heck went so badly!

[AK83]

Go NAS back ups as well..

I do removable and NAS of my 3 computers.
And some material is cloud stored as well.

:thumbsup:

While I tend to avoid the cloud for most of my backups, definitely go with a well featured NAS.
I use clouds only to have easy access to small file data(eg. spreadsheets, some PDFs and important personal stuff like that)
I'm an enthusiast photographer and the vast majority of my backup data is photos. terabytes of the stuff!
I've had two backups of the archive for years(one external, one internal), but even that isn't enough.
While the photos are priceless or valuable in a monetary sense, they are irreplaceable.
I've lost a couple of HDDs(usually external) of the images, so had I relied solely on the external backup they'd have been lost.
(ps. Seagate drives are the worst! .. never had a failed WD drive).
So now I have 3 backups of the really important data. internal drive, external drive and the NAS.
And it's good to be wary of a NAS failing too.
I had that recently, where one of the drive ports for the 4bay NAS failed, the day after I bought it.
So my 4 bay NAS morphed itself into a 3 bay NAS.
Contacted manufacturer and they said bring it in and we'll check it.
They replaced it within a day, so all good to go again, but of course being in a hurry I didn't back it up(ie. it's OS and settings data).
I assumed that because it was a direct replacement, if I put all the drives back in the way they came out of the partly dead box, it'd boot up again as tho nothing happened.
Wrong!
So I needed to have a backup of the NAS settings(on another external drive) too to plug and play it if ever needed again.
No biggie as I literally just set it all up and was going through the various settings options. all data was already located on other drives.
The annoyance was in the amount of time it took to replace all the data back onto the NAS box(a couple of days all up).

Back when I was trying to decide which NAS to go with, (for me) it was a toss-of-a-coin between a QNAP and a Thecus. 4 bay was more than enough, and in the end I chose a QNAP TS-453A.
Prior to that, I briefly used a D-Link DNS-327L.
The Dlink was a handy device in itself, but way too limited(it's OS capability) to be truly useful to a geek!
The main reason I chose the TS-453A is the ability to connect it to a TV and it becomes the media server and a 'Linux' like PC directly on the TV.
Kids like the streamlined ability to play their movies directly on the TV(one remote).

[spudboy]

Did you get whacked by lighting when you were backing up or something!!

I used to have fancy drive arrays and NAS.

Now I have 5 big removable USB3 drives that I use in rotation.

3 live off site in case the house burns down, and I just swap them once a week.

Daily backups to a 2nd server.

Worst case is I lose a weeks worth of work (+ my house!)

[cripesamighty]

Backups you say? Don't worry, my ex took care of those too....