I've got an 8 GB nano that's pretty robust.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
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NoiseDesign - Jul 20, 2007 7:07:47 pm PDT #2205 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Dana - Jul 22, 2007 4:27:50 pm PDT #2206 of 25496
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You can currently get a 320GB external Seagate hard drive at Best Buy for $99. If anyone else is looking to buy.
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2007 7:27:56 am PDT #2207 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just bought a PC at Fry's for $150 (after $100 rebate). I am such a sucker. I consider it some sort of odd virtue that I didn't buy the $179 PC, nor a new flatscreen monitor (I'm scared to check the specs of the one I have now, because if the $200+ one beats it...no, I need to learn restraint).
But basically I figure I've upgraded my Linux box from what was cheap and easy to get in 2000 to what's cheap and easy in 2007.
Next step? Find out how much I can upgrade the hardware itself.
I remember asking before what people did for backup and didn't get much. Do you guys not back up? Mirror? Anything?
Tom Scola - Jul 23, 2007 7:28:52 am PDT #2208 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I periodically use rsync to mirror my disk to an external drive.
NoiseDesign - Jul 23, 2007 9:06:35 am PDT #2209 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
For my Macs I do a complete disc image to either an external drive or a network drive.
Kevin - Jul 23, 2007 9:26:34 am PDT #2210 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I just tar stuff up on linux. $ tar -c /home/blah >backup.tar
Then bzip2 it for space.
I haven't backed anything up on the Mac yet. Although all my email is Gmail now, and all my documents are done on Google Docs & Spreadsheets, and my Firefox is synchronised with the Google bookmarks thing. Huh, Google appear to own my online life.
NoiseDesign - Jul 23, 2007 9:31:11 am PDT #2211 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
I also use Synchronize Pro on the Mac when I'm working on projects across multiple machines and want to keep my data in some sort of order.
Typo Boy - Jul 23, 2007 11:33:08 am PDT #2212 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Copy all data, plus application data to DVD (basically - the "My Name" folder) periodically.
NoiseDesign - Jul 23, 2007 11:43:36 am PDT #2213 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Copy all data, plus application data to DVD (basically - the "My Name" folder) periodically.
I used to do that, but since I'm now sitting on close to 1 TB of local storage on my main machine I've switched over to hard drive archives and backups. Currently I connect a 500 GB hard drive to my router and as projects finish they get copied to that drive. When the drive is full, I clone it, label the contents, and drop both drives on a shelf. It's actually proved to be pretty economical as the last 500 GB drive I picked up was $119.
Typo Boy - Jul 23, 2007 11:47:04 am PDT #2214 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Yeah, but I don't have the level of data you do. Most of my work is text, with occasional still graphics. ita may need a setup closer to what you have.