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Here's an old fan favorite ;) This was inspired by an incident back in 2004, which resulted in the loss of nearly ALL of my archived artwork and animation files. An incorrect Windows registry scrambled the file allocation table of my primary data hard drive.
Cray, being the more tech-savvy of us, spent a lot of time trying to get the files recovered. Thankfully, most of the important files had been copied to the drive recently, and weren't fragmented. My current animation project at the time, however (Taurin and the Water Tentacles) was completely lost. Thankfully, I found a copy of a month-old working file of it on our laptop (to this day I don't know how it got there), but it was enough to let me finish the project instead of scrapping it.
Thank you again to all of you who helped us in recovering the files back then. You're all still awesome =)
Update: As a result of that incident, we've invested in a 1.5 TB file server, operating on a RAID 5 array. Unfortunately, this setup wouldn't have prevented the previous incident, since that was a software issue, but at least my data is much more protected than it was previously ;)
Cray, being the more tech-savvy of us, spent a lot of time trying to get the files recovered. Thankfully, most of the important files had been copied to the drive recently, and weren't fragmented. My current animation project at the time, however (Taurin and the Water Tentacles) was completely lost. Thankfully, I found a copy of a month-old working file of it on our laptop (to this day I don't know how it got there), but it was enough to let me finish the project instead of scrapping it.
Thank you again to all of you who helped us in recovering the files back then. You're all still awesome =)
Update: As a result of that incident, we've invested in a 1.5 TB file server, operating on a RAID 5 array. Unfortunately, this setup wouldn't have prevented the previous incident, since that was a software issue, but at least my data is much more protected than it was previously ;)
Category Artwork (Traditional) / All
Species Vulpine (Other)
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File Size 115.5 kB
I also hate Macs, but I dunno why you guys fight. Just use Linux; you get the good hardware prices of a PC and the dependability of a *nix based OS. It's the highlight of both systems put into one.
Also, with Wine, you don't have to use that whole "oh but then I can't play my games" excuse. :P
Also, with Wine, you don't have to use that whole "oh but then I can't play my games" excuse. :P
there's lots of people who have gotten it to work just fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r88M.....eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r88M.....eature=related
there's lots of people who have gotten it to work just fine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r88M.....eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r88M.....eature=related
Ooh! Luckily that has never happened to me before.. though I had my 2 250s in raid striping recently, only to have the main one fail after about 3 months of working fine! Also luckily though, I didn't have important stuff, especially since i had a backup of my data on my laptop as well as online, thanks to Dropbox! And I bet that "Month working file" was MAGICALLY put on there by a computer fox!
Ah yes...Been there and done that. XP succeeded in doing that to me a couple of years back - it fell over in the middle of installing SP3 - and completely wrecked the contents of the drive right down to the partition tables.
Many tens of hours later after scrubbing through it sector by sector, I did get *most* of my data back - but there's still a good amount that's gone for good. This dragon learned a valuable lesson about backups (and redundant backups) that day.
That resulted in a brief brush with Vista, as I needed my computer up and running THEN for work, and that was all I had access to locally (the fact that the machine wasn't running meant I couldn't download any alternatives!)...This was ill fated, and in a fit of frustration, I decided to see what Linux was doing those days...having been scared off following a brief foray into Red Hat back in 1998. Overnight more or less I converted to Ubuntu.
Nearly three years on, I've not switched back...
Rsync is my best friend as well as far as carrying out backups is concerned.
Aaanyway, this is about art...not computers...so I'll stop rambling.
Love the expression in that picture - it captures very well the expression of sheer terror and dismay these moments cause! Don't think I'd ever seen that before either, thanks for sharing!
Many tens of hours later after scrubbing through it sector by sector, I did get *most* of my data back - but there's still a good amount that's gone for good. This dragon learned a valuable lesson about backups (and redundant backups) that day.
That resulted in a brief brush with Vista, as I needed my computer up and running THEN for work, and that was all I had access to locally (the fact that the machine wasn't running meant I couldn't download any alternatives!)...This was ill fated, and in a fit of frustration, I decided to see what Linux was doing those days...having been scared off following a brief foray into Red Hat back in 1998. Overnight more or less I converted to Ubuntu.
Nearly three years on, I've not switched back...
Rsync is my best friend as well as far as carrying out backups is concerned.
Aaanyway, this is about art...not computers...so I'll stop rambling.
Love the expression in that picture - it captures very well the expression of sheer terror and dismay these moments cause! Don't think I'd ever seen that before either, thanks for sharing!
This particular registry key has to do with how Windows interprets the size of the drive. From what I understand, as soon as more data was written to the drive than the OS expected, the file allocation table was overwritten in a way that no longer corresponded to the locations of the files on the drive. The data area in the drive wasn't damaged, but the file system no longer had any reference to where the files or fragments were stored.
Too much sticky artwork on your computer. They don't like creamy white stuff going all over the place. :3
Ah well, software problems happen; they were invented by humans and thus are fallible, nothing you can do about it really. I'm rather glad the 3D project of yours wasn't scrapped, I really do like that flash/movie/thingie. One of the better animations out there. ^^
Ah well, software problems happen; they were invented by humans and thus are fallible, nothing you can do about it really. I'm rather glad the 3D project of yours wasn't scrapped, I really do like that flash/movie/thingie. One of the better animations out there. ^^
Ugh, I feel ya' on this one. I had an issue with Vista do in 10 years of photography. (I had it backed up to DVD, but in the course of moving a couple times, they got lost.) So I'm basically starting over. But lesson learned, I don't entrust anything important to Windows anymore. And on the instances I have to, I'll put it on a separate drive so that it's not on the same one my OS is on. Though, that wouldn't have saved my decades worth of photos. That was a victim of the infamous Vista file transfer bug. (where large files often do not complete properly, especially between other OS's, even other versions of Windows. )
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