It happened to me in a distant past - my PC was stolen.
And the worst thing - I had all my life data there and had no backup.
All of my data, starting from my cat`s childhood photos and ending important documents, were lost forever.
That was a lesson for all the life - backup your personal data as well!!😅
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When I learned in university. I used a laptop with HDD and windows OS and it was new laptop and good. At least I thought so. Then I decided moving data from my phone to laptop. But one day, my phone was crash and i thought "it's ok. I still have a laptop". But but but, at that day my laptop crash too because windows auto update and never launch again. And you know what ? My personal data in C disk. All data from videos trip to dog picture is gone when I install new window and I know the result. This is black day for me.
As you can said "That was a lesson for all the life - backup your personal data as well!!😅" or at least not store in C disk.
Had a new PC and was hosting a goodbye party before moving to Singapore. The PC was used to play spotify to the big speakers (jack connection) and I had just transferred on it all data from the old PC (before selling it). I was gonna do the backup of all the photos and code that same evening.
Fast forward an hour in the party one of the kids tried to play with the cable and poof the PC dropped the main SSD was fine but the 2TB HDD were all the data was gone. tried sending it for repair but it was un-salvageable. Lost all my code from when I started, some interesting rpg-engine I was working on and about 500Gb of photos and videos from all my trips and more.
Now I have a setup at home with hard drives connected to raspberry pi and as soon as I finish photoshoots or important stuff I just send it to the network drive and then the raspberry handles cloud upload and redundancy.
I accidentally permanently deleted a folder with almost all of my projects so small that they were never put on some remote git server. It wasn't too devastating (the most important stuff was backed up), but it was really annoying to lose some of my programs. I tried using a recovery tool to try to get some files back, but it didn't really work.
I'm glad I don't have any other stories like this that are more serious :)
After reading some comments, I feel like I'm lucky. I barely have anything sooo important except my repos that I put on github if its anything I want to keep and usually keep all my personal photos on Google Photos, so if its time to do a clean Windows install I can just hit the reset button and not give a sh*t about what's on my hard drive.
Hardcopies for me, are safer and less volatile. I often go through my photos and get the ones I really like developed.
I've never done that as far as I know, but wanted to say that your cover image is 💯💯💯
Thank you. Its just a famous mem in runet.🙂
Yep, but recovered 1 partition with important data, hdd got corrupted
I lost a few hundred photos back when I was still using my parents computer as a teenager. It was nothing of great importance, but I was upset nonetheless and vowed to do everything practical to not have that happen again.
Up until a few months ago I was backing up everything to two external HDDs, leaving one plugged in to back up routinely, while storing the other offsite and rotating occasionally.
Now I have a NAS which is my primary storage and one external HDD plugged into that for routine backups. I have an offsite backup from when I made the transition to the NAS but this is no longer being updated as data is spread across multiple drives.
I feel uneasy only having one up to date backup of the NAS, while the other is increasningly out of date and offsite. But I have >6TB of data to store and that gets expensive. Another drive is on my wishlist, to get back to two rotating backups.
The most disappointing for me was to loose the photos from my childhood, and the photos of my cat (thousands and millions of them 😅).
Backups? If you dont need to store some teras then any Dropbox version by any brand would be enough.
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