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...Which sounds like "heart attack".
This one is a "Statement Pic" to all you artists out there. I only came up with it on the way home from work today (8/26) while surfing my Inbox from my cellphone. But that's just trivia. The meat of the inspiration is one of the journals I found in my Inbox today.
Yet another artist lost all his art in a hard drive crash/corruption induced by a faulty power supply. It made me check the last time I backed up my art files (I keep an archive of all the full-sized, uncompressed versions of all the stuff I post). Then it made me draw this pic. Tanya, who happens to be the one character in my group imbued with the ability to draw, gets a lesson in personal terror when her hard drive (presumably full of art) bites the big one and releases it's magic blue smoke.
I hope this made you chuckle (if not outright LOL at the message on the screen)--and then check how many places you have YOUR artwork stored. Chances are it only exists in one spot--your computer's hard drive. If so, go and burn a copy of that archive to a cd/DVD, copy it to a thumb drive or an external hard drive. Do it pronto. You just might thank this pic one day, because hard drives all have a finite lifespan, so your data should never exist in only one place, and preferably two or three.
Example: one of the external hard drives I keep my artwork on failed one day. Found out it was one of those IBM/Hitatchi TravelStar drives, related to the infamous DeskStar drives also known as "DeathStars". What would have been a disaster instead produced just a yawn and a shrug. The key word here is "one of", meaning "more than one". I kept the files "lost" on that particular drive on two other external hard drives, plus the thumb drives the individual projects resided on while they were works-in-progress (when they fill up, I just buy another one--they're that cheap now). All I needed to do was to make a mental note to replace the failed drive and clone a backup from one of the other two drives. Any time I finish a project and post it, I pull out the two or three backup drives and copypasta the completed project folder to each one.
There is a lesson here. Hope ya'all learned something.
Sharpie-inked pencils processed with Micrografx Picture Publisher 8
This one is a "Statement Pic" to all you artists out there. I only came up with it on the way home from work today (8/26) while surfing my Inbox from my cellphone. But that's just trivia. The meat of the inspiration is one of the journals I found in my Inbox today.
Yet another artist lost all his art in a hard drive crash/corruption induced by a faulty power supply. It made me check the last time I backed up my art files (I keep an archive of all the full-sized, uncompressed versions of all the stuff I post). Then it made me draw this pic. Tanya, who happens to be the one character in my group imbued with the ability to draw, gets a lesson in personal terror when her hard drive (presumably full of art) bites the big one and releases it's magic blue smoke.
I hope this made you chuckle (if not outright LOL at the message on the screen)--and then check how many places you have YOUR artwork stored. Chances are it only exists in one spot--your computer's hard drive. If so, go and burn a copy of that archive to a cd/DVD, copy it to a thumb drive or an external hard drive. Do it pronto. You just might thank this pic one day, because hard drives all have a finite lifespan, so your data should never exist in only one place, and preferably two or three.
Example: one of the external hard drives I keep my artwork on failed one day. Found out it was one of those IBM/Hitatchi TravelStar drives, related to the infamous DeskStar drives also known as "DeathStars". What would have been a disaster instead produced just a yawn and a shrug. The key word here is "one of", meaning "more than one". I kept the files "lost" on that particular drive on two other external hard drives, plus the thumb drives the individual projects resided on while they were works-in-progress (when they fill up, I just buy another one--they're that cheap now). All I needed to do was to make a mental note to replace the failed drive and clone a backup from one of the other two drives. Any time I finish a project and post it, I pull out the two or three backup drives and copypasta the completed project folder to each one.
There is a lesson here. Hope ya'all learned something.
Sharpie-inked pencils processed with Micrografx Picture Publisher 8
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Housecat
Size 1060 x 750px
File Size 127 kB
(reads wikipecia entry for Time Machine.)
Hope you're backing up to someplace other than your primary hard drive :)
Hope you're backing up to someplace other than your primary hard drive :)
My computer has a RAID array, so if one drive fails, there's an exact duplicate. And then I back everything up daily to a Firewire drive. And weekly to an network drive. And I make a third copy onto a pocket-sized drive whenever there's a chance of severe storms, in case I need to run for the basement.
Every three days or so I run all my virus software, and if I'm clean (which I always am), then I connect an external hard drive and transfer all my new files from a temporsary folder to it. Then it's disconnectded for another three days. This limits how much I can lose.
I used to burn CD's but it was a nuisance because I'd have to burn everything folder by folder and break up some folders because they were too big, and everything would be out of order. Not to mention the huge number of wasted disks.
Get yourselves an external hd, that's my advice. They don't cost that much anymore.
I used to burn CD's but it was a nuisance because I'd have to burn everything folder by folder and break up some folders because they were too big, and everything would be out of order. Not to mention the huge number of wasted disks.
Get yourselves an external hd, that's my advice. They don't cost that much anymore.
The irony is that my first external HD's managed to fail, but I didn't notice the signs of failure (dropping its drive letter while not being accessed). I solved this by having at least two drives for the major categories of data. That first drive, however contains stuff I didn't have another copy of, and is sitting in a data recovery facility in Florida right now.
Lost my external hard drive a few days ago... a lot of important files were lost.
I have a second one... but not all the files from the other one were on this one.
I heard that if you take the case apart and install it on a desktop computer as a slave drive, it'll actually work again, depending on the problem it had. I ended up doing that before last time I lost a drive and it worked... though I had help putting it in because I have no idea what to do with a computer's insides.
Best thing to do is buy a new HD every year if you require a lot of space for files, and burn the most important files to DVDs.
I have a second one... but not all the files from the other one were on this one.
I heard that if you take the case apart and install it on a desktop computer as a slave drive, it'll actually work again, depending on the problem it had. I ended up doing that before last time I lost a drive and it worked... though I had help putting it in because I have no idea what to do with a computer's insides.
Best thing to do is buy a new HD every year if you require a lot of space for files, and burn the most important files to DVDs.
At the time I drew this, "the cloud" wasn't really the buzzword that it is today.
While theoretically nowadays she could have cloud backup, this pic is really a reminder for all the artists out there who right now are one hard disk failure from losing all their artwork. Believe me, I've heard many stories...
While theoretically nowadays she could have cloud backup, this pic is really a reminder for all the artists out there who right now are one hard disk failure from losing all their artwork. Believe me, I've heard many stories...
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