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Is it neurotic to back up to CD several times a day?

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TechnoPro

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I have a relative who is doing personal finance work on Quicken. She makes several (1-4) CD backups of this Quicken data per day, typically after she has made a certain amount of progress at data entry.

She would be using floppies if the data file fit onto 1. I have suggested a USB thumb drive but this idea was met without any real enthusiasm.

I guess I cannot guarantee that the hard drive will not suffer from catastrophic failure, but this behavior of hers seems completely neurotic to me.

Am I being overly critical in my opinions, or do people agree that this is a bit overboard?
 
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
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What were the signs of failure?
 
its different if you're overwriting files on a floppy every 2 horus of work (like my dad does) . . . but CD-Rs?!?!?
 
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
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What were the signs of failure?
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Clunking sounds & lockups (where clunking is followed by the drive spinning up) mostly. I swapped IDE cables, since I knew the round cable I was using was a little shoddy, but it's still happening. My new drive comes tomorrow. :thumbsup:
 
It depends on how valuable the data is. I back up infrequently now, as the stuff I work on does not need frequent updating. That said, while I was working on different projects for a few friends in college, and my PC held the only copies of the data, and it was under constant revision, I backed it up every 6 hours or so.
 
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
It depends on how valuable the data is. I back up infrequently now, as the stuff I work on does not need frequent updating. That said, while I was working on different projects for a few friends in college, and my PC held the only copies of the data, and it was under constant revision, I backed it up every 6 hours or so.
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Backed up to what medium?

I guess my gripe is this backup to CD routine as opposed to external HDD, USB drive, online backup, etc.
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
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What were the signs of failure?
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Clunking sounds & lockups (where clunking is followed by the drive spinning up) mostly. I swapped IDE cables, since I knew the round cable I was using was a little shoddy, but it's still happening. My new drive comes tomorrow. :thumbsup:
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How old was this drive and what brand was it?
 
Originally posted by: Jehovah
Well, my question would be, how computer-literate is she?
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Present level would be advanced begginer. She is moderately capapble at picking up new skills when they suit her. So training her to do something else would not be the issue. My concern if I set up a USB drive or an external HDD is that she would be backing up more often. Yes, I am serious.

When I have been working with her before on a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet, she will reach across me every few minutes or so (when the keyboard is in front of me) just to press Ctrl + S. Okay, so I guess I answered my question... She is neurotic.
 
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: bradruth
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
Click to expand...

What were the signs of failure?
Click to expand...

Clunking sounds & lockups (where clunking is followed by the drive spinning up) mostly. I swapped IDE cables, since I knew the round cable I was using was a little shoddy, but it's still happening. My new drive comes tomorrow. :thumbsup:
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How old was this drive and what brand was it?
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I got on FS/T here, and I've been running it since...May/June I think. It's a Western Digital 60gb 7200rpm drive (my other drive, and the one I'll be replacing the 60 with, is a WD 80gb 7200rpm with 8mb cache).
 
Hrm, after my last reply the drive gave a click and locked up...good thing the new one is gonna be here tomorrow. 😀
 
Originally posted by: bradruth
Originally posted by: TechnoPro
Originally posted by: bradruth
I'd say that's a bit overboard, but I'm going through a gradual hard-drive failure and was scrambling to backup my stuff yesterday, so I really shouldn't judge.
Click to expand...

What were the signs of failure?
Click to expand...

Clunking sounds & lockups (where clunking is followed by the drive spinning up) mostly. I swapped IDE cables, since I knew the round cable I was using was a little shoddy, but it's still happening. My new drive comes tomorrow. :thumbsup:
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That happened to my old 18gig Quantum (remember them?), but it still works to this day.

On the other hand, my 160gig Maxtor made some clicking noise and refused to boot up couple of days ago. Then it worked again after shutting off power. I did a frantic back up to my other drive, but I got too lazy and gave up. I sure hope it doesn?t die on me.
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Originally posted by: SSP
That happened to my old 18gig Quantum (remember them?), but it still works to this day.

On the other hand, my 160gig Maxtor made some clicking noise and refused to boot up couple of days ago. Then it worked again after shutting off power. I did a frantic back up to my other drive, but I got too lazy and gave up. I sure hope it doesn?t die on me.
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Yeah, I can get this drive to work in various intervals. I'm not even going to bother trying to start it up again. It's nice being home for x-mas, where I have another computer sitting right next to me.
 
She probably has OCD. It's not really considered neurosis unless shes really prone to emotional outbursts
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
She probably has OCD. It's not really considered neurosis unless shes really prone to emotional outbursts
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Hence the overwhelming desire to continutally backup to CD?
 
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