Stupid Backup

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:45 pm

Near my computer i have a cd spindle of over 100 disks which are mostly backup stuff from the past 3-4 years. Today i opened it to have a look only to notice almost everything apart from my last few backups isnt marked :cry:

over a hundred CD/DVDs with either nothing wrote on them or random crap i wrote because i was bored while making backups. One of them even says "I have no idea what is on this compact disk". Im never gonna find what i need

Xyzzzy · Post by **Xyzzzy** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:50 pm

omg
lol that sucks

organization ftw

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:35 pm

i never even do backups, imho its useless.. just make ur windows disc like 5gb and never put stuff in there, and use another discs for storaging...

well in my 6 years of having computer i never even needed to restore anything.. guess im lucky? xD

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:42 pm

well, ive had 4 different computers since i started backing stuff up so i cant just keep it on the hard drive. And, whats the whole point of a backup? to back things up, if you keep it all on a hard drive and the drive fails all that stuff is gone, unless your lucky and you can save it, i wasnt so lucky with my last hard drive.

Also, alot of the stuff on the disks i dont use/need much, i dont want it clogging up my computer.

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:48 pm

wait but if u lose ur harddrive, how exactly will u restore all the things ? O_o

or the disc actually restores it on any hardrive(which i dont think so)

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:51 pm

AnemuS wrote:wait but if u lose ur harddrive, how exactly will u restore all the things ? O_o

or the disc actually restores it on any hardrive(which i dont think so)

uh, all i do is copy files onto a disk, i dont use any backup tools or anything, they are a waste of time.

FX · Post by FX » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:53 pm

i restore my pc every 4 months to keep it hax-free (too much pr0n jp lol) and running like it didnt when i first got it. i usually just backup stuff onto 1 dvd. i dont keep alot of old shit or useless crap.

AnemuS · Post by **AnemuS** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:59 pm

Innovacious wrote:
AnemuS wrote:wait but if u lose ur harddrive, how exactly will u restore all the things ? O_o

or the disc actually restores it on any hardrive(which i dont think so)

uh, all i do is copy files onto a disk, i dont use any backup tools or anything, they are a waste of time.

oooh lol, well ive got plenty of such a discs, but in the end i never even use them :/
btw they are dvd and more than 50 discs for sure

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:02 pm

I found what i was looking for about 4/5ths of the way down the pile ,and after 3 restarts because windows kept crashing while trying to copy files from a disk that was scratched quite alot.

Post by **dom** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:10 pm

I bet you still need that pirated copy of sim city 2000 from 4 years ago.

I have one USB stick with school documents, a copy on my gmail account (mailed to myself)

All my disks I got with my hardware, one pirated Vista disk, one disk with pirated microsoft office 07 and pirated CS3 suite.

Innovacious · Post by **Innovacious** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:21 pm

dom wrote:I bet you still need that pirated copy of sim city 2000 from 4 years ago.

I have one USB stick with school documents, a copy on my gmail account (mailed to myself)

All my disks I got with my hardware, one pirated Vista disk, one disk with pirated microsoft office 07 and pirated CS3 suite.

i have lots of disks of just stuff ive made in photoshop/3ds max/bryce/cinema 4d/visual basic/adobe primiere/flash. The majority of it never got shown to anyone, but i like to keep it to look back on.

I also have a hell of alot of pirated installers. One of the things i was looking for was a gta3 installer, lol. (lol, just found vice city as well)