danny’s space

i’ve recently (well, over the last month or so) been on a backup spree - i swear it’s so fun, backing up important data and whatnot..

a reminder about the importance of backups came when the hard disk in the computer in the lab i work in crashed.. luckily most of us kept second copies of our work on other computers, but one guy in the lab lost most of his recent work because he had forgotten to back up.. so we had to ship the computer to a data recovery service, and the price was pretty steep - ~$1500 to recover only 6 DVDs worth of data from the dodged hard disk..

so the moral of the story? keep regular backups.. invest in a DVD burner (i recommend the pioneer range) and buy a couple of DVD+RWs and back up those files! photos and stuff i like backing up onto DVD+Rs because it’s not like they’re going to change.. also Rs keep for longer anyway.. it’s also useful (i read somewhere, smh i think..) to make 2 backups and give a copy to a friend who doesn’t live in the same house as you - call this paranoid, but better safe than sorry..

so, go forth and back up!