Ugh, stupid mistake. BE CAREFUL WHEN BACKING UP YOUR DATA.

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notfred

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So, I was backing up my home directory last night, preparing to reinstal lthe OS. I made a tar file on a seperate drive with my entire home directory. Formatted this morning, reinstalled, extracted the .tar file, and saw it get about 80% through and then reach an unexpected EOF.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BACKUPS ACTUALLY HAVE ALL YOUR DATA.

I didn't lose too much, but did lose my entirely collection of digital photos. :(
 
iamme

iamme

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Jul 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: notfred
So, I was backing up my home directory last night, preparing to reinstal lthe OS. I made a tar file on a seperate drive with my entire home directory. Formatted this morning, reinstalled, extracted the .tar file, and saw it get about 80% through and then reach an unexpected EOF.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BACKUPS ACTUALLY HAVE ALL YOUR DATA.

I didn't lose too much, but did lose my entirely collection of digital photos. :(
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ah damn :(

that's the one thing i'm most afraid to lose.
 
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notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: notfred
So, I was backing up my home directory last night, preparing to reinstal lthe OS. I made a tar file on a seperate drive with my entire home directory. Formatted this morning, reinstalled, extracted the .tar file, and saw it get about 80% through and then reach an unexpected EOF.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR BACKUPS ACTUALLY HAVE ALL YOUR DATA.

I didn't lose too much, but did lose my entirely collection of digital photos. :(
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ah damn :(

that's the one thing i'm most afraid to lose.
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I have a LOT of them on my website (see link in sig), but not all of them. I did lose al lthe righ-res ones, though.
 
Kadarin

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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Thanks for reminding me that I really should burn my photos to cd... I'm sorry you found out the hard way.

:beer:
 
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DaFinn

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Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Thanks for reminding me that I really should burn my photos to cd... I'm sorry you found out the hard way.

:beer:
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Umm, yeah... I did that once. Zipped about 1Gb of photos, so they would fit on 1 CD. When I needed to unzip them, winzip just informed "the file was damaged or not a valid winzip package" or something to that effect... When you backup, make sure your backup actually works.

Once I tried to copy a HD to another similar size HD, and got the destination and source HD's mixed... :(
 
BoberFett

BoberFett

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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My photos are the things I value most on my hard drive. I back them up to CDs and my home server in addition to keeping them all locally.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: DaFinn
Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Thanks for reminding me that I really should burn my photos to cd... I'm sorry you found out the hard way.

:beer:
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Umm, yeah... I did that once. Zipped about 1Gb of photos, so they would fit on 1 CD. When I needed to unzip them, winzip just informed "the file was damaged or not a valid winzip package" or something to that effect... When you backup, make sure your backup actually works.

Once I tried to copy a HD to another similar size HD, and got the destination and source HD's mixed... :(
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Why in the name of god would you zip them?It's not like they're expensive CDs.
 
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gwlam12

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oh yes, back them up on a regular basis. cds are cheap. and u dont know when ur hard drive might die on you.
 
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