Once Again I Have To Reiterate The Importance Of Regular Backups

[2GooD Productions]

So, this evening, putting the finishing touches on an upcoming house track with an artist Im working with, gave it the seal of approval ready to go. Turned the volume up and the bass was fucking banging, was a pleasure to behold. Then out of the fucking blue, the harddisk bounces itself to the floor and proceeds to stop working.
So there I was sweating like an absolute motherfucker, thinking what have I lost? Could have been weeks of work, all my recent beats, a whole house project with this artist gone down the shitter. I was pondering just ending it all right there, jump off Tower Bridge or some other melodramatic end to it all.
But no, I get home and realise I plugged in my back up device yesterday and its auto backed up everything. Fucking result, although Ive lost a tonne of shit I had on that drive that wasnt backed up, my music wasnt any of it.
Moral of the story, losing everything can make you want to give it all up, or at the very least, give you a sick feeling inside that you never want to feel, MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.

 

[Mike Chief]

I support this message. Too many lost beats for me. All the beats from my teens and early 20's are dust in the digital wind (save a few on Souundcloud).

 

[Kane the MOD]

So, this evening, putting the finishing touches on an upcoming house track with an artist Im working with, gave it the seal of approval ready to go. Turned the volume up and the bass was fucking banging, was a pleasure to behold. Then out of the fucking blue, the harddisk bounces itself to the floor and proceeds to stop working.
So there I was sweating like an absolute motherfucker, thinking what have I lost? Could have been weeks of work, all my recent beats, a whole house project with this artist gone down the shitter. I was pondering just ending it all right there, jump off Tower Bridge or some other melodramatic end to it all.
But no, I get home and realise I plugged in my back up device yesterday and its auto backed up everything. Fucking result, although Ive lost a tonne of shit I had on that drive that wasnt backed up, my music wasnt any of it.
Moral of the story, losing everything can make you want to give it all up, or at the very least, give you a sick feeling inside that you never want to feel, MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.

My external HD with all my samples on it stopped working a few days back. I think I can save the files but still. Make regular backups.

 

[Fade]

I'm going to create The ILL Data Center for beat backups.

 

[K-waz]

So, this evening, putting the finishing touches on an upcoming house track with an artist Im working with, gave it the seal of approval ready to go. Turned the volume up and the bass was fucking banging, was a pleasure to behold. Then out of the fucking blue, the harddisk bounces itself to the floor and proceeds to stop working.
So there I was sweating like an absolute motherfucker, thinking what have I lost? Could have been weeks of work, all my recent beats, a whole house project with this artist gone down the shitter. I was pondering just ending it all right there, jump off Tower Bridge or some other melodramatic end to it all.
But no, I get home and realise I plugged in my back up device yesterday and its auto backed up everything. Fucking result, although Ive lost a tonne of shit I had on that drive that wasnt backed up, my music wasnt any of it.
Moral of the story, losing everything can make you want to give it all up, or at the very least, give you a sick feeling inside that you never want to feel, MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.

Sometimes you can buy a toaster (Dock Station)for your harddrive and 95% of the time it comes back on

 

[iDeaLoGiK]

Exactly why I invested in a NAS with two 16tb enterprise drives in it. I'd have gone for the 4 disk one but just the two drives were expensive enough. Automated backups of all my music stuff is a must.

 

[Dusty B]

A RZA approved message.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Sometimes you can buy a toaster (Dock Station)for your harddrive and 95% of the time it comes back on View attachment 6844

Am going to try this as a last resort, to see what I can recover

 

[Kane the MOD]

So, this evening, putting the finishing touches on an upcoming house track with an artist Im working with, gave it the seal of approval ready to go. Turned the volume up and the bass was fucking banging, was a pleasure to behold. Then out of the fucking blue, the harddisk bounces itself to the floor and proceeds to stop working.
So there I was sweating like an absolute motherfucker, thinking what have I lost? Could have been weeks of work, all my recent beats, a whole house project with this artist gone down the shitter. I was pondering just ending it all right there, jump off Tower Bridge or some other melodramatic end to it all.
But no, I get home and realise I plugged in my back up device yesterday and its auto backed up everything. Fucking result, although Ive lost a tonne of shit I had on that drive that wasnt backed up, my music wasnt any of it.
Moral of the story, losing everything can make you want to give it all up, or at the very least, give you a sick feeling inside that you never want to feel, MAKE REGULAR BACKUPS.

Is it just me or does @2GooD Productions always teaser his projects and then never ever looses a damn word about them again? Like Drake hiding his child kind of attitude.

Not saying that posting your projects on the ill will make you a professional paid musician but there is certainly no harm in doing so.

Unless, you are really into the furniture moving thing of course....

just saying.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Is it just me or does @2GooD Productions always teaser his projects and then never ever looses a damn word about them again? Like Drake hiding his child kind of attitude.

Not saying that posting your projects on the ill will make you a professional paid musician but there is certainly no harm in doing so.

Unless, you are really into the furniture moving thing of course....

just saying.

Lol, I will post once they are on spotify.

 

[K-waz]

Am going to try this as a last resort, to see what I can recover

If it works for you, you'll recover everything

 

[2GooD Productions]

If it works for you, you'll recover everything

Ive had to resort to data recovery in the past, but Ive never been able to recover everything. Because of disk fragmentation, if the data is in fragments all over the disk, without the master boot record then I think it becomes impossible to know where all the parts are on the HD. When I plug the drive in at the moment it says that the drive needs to be formatted. I think the drop destroyed the MBR.

 

[Kane the MOD]

Ive had to resort to data recovery in the past, but Ive never been able to recover everything. Because of disk fragmentation, if the data is in fragments all over the disk, without the master boot record then I think it becomes impossible to know where all the parts are on the HD. When I plug the drive in at the moment it says that the drive needs to be formatted. I think the drop destroyed the MBR.

Did you try using a Linux with Gparted?

Sometimes that can do miracles.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Did you try using a Linux with Gparted?

Sometimes that can do miracles.

Nope can honestly say Ive never heard of it, let alone used it. I had linux on my old laptop a while back, but ended up putting windows back on it when this laptop was waiting for new fans

 

[Kane the MOD]

All that I am saying for now. Don't give up on the HD yet and don't format. If there is not a mechanical damage it could be an easy fix. It worked for me.

 

[Big_DAW_Audio]

A cool trick is using a Google Drive folder on your computer that you save all the music to. That way all your project files are backed up to the cloud in real time without having to worry ever.

 

[2GooD Productions]

A cool trick is using a Google Drive folder on your computer that you save all the music to. That way all your project files are backed up to the cloud in real time without having to worry ever.

I have issues with security of the cloud.

 

[Iron Keys]

You know what, this popped up again I need to back up my other stuff.

 

[Big_DAW_Audio]

I have issues with security of the cloud.

Yes, it may not be perfect. But the information being stored isn't really valuable (I mean its our project files, but it has no real inherent value to anyone but ourselves), and it's unlikely Google Drive goes down (and if it does, we still have the original on our computers as this is just a backup, not the only copy.

It makes for easy collaborations as well.

 

[2GooD Productions]

Yes, it may not be perfect. But the information being stored isn't really valuable (I mean its our project files, but it has no real inherent value to anyone but ourselves), and it's unlikely Google Drive goes down (and if it does, we still have the original on our computers as this is just a backup, not the only copy.

It makes for easy collaborations as well.

I use google drive for collaborations