Will someone please shoot me?

[Steve Maskery]

Well I've spoken to the engineer today.

Granny is on the roof, as it were.

Apparently the controller board is shot, and he can't read the platen without an identical board (there are thousands). He doesn't have one but will hunt around whilst I am doing Good Works in Zambia (fly Friday). I can see me spending the whole fortnight fretting about my disk and coming back to the absolute realization that I have no film for BW14, and a pair of bandsaw films that are rather slimmer than they were at the end of last week.

If someone would like to donate £1500 for A Mac that does my Backups for me automatically (a fact that, I'm sure, Roger too no pleasure in pointing out to me.....) etc, etc.

The only good point is that I've not lost the original footage, but it's small comfort. All the editing and scoring has gone. The worst of it is that I have only myself to blame. I was once an IT engineer, and I would have berated any customer who had done what I have done.

I hope nobody was looking forward to a WE Christmas present. It ain't going to happen. Not this Christmas, anyway

Ah well, perhaps I can do a better job in Lusaka (currently 33 degrees except that I'm not very good in the heat )

"Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye, toodle-loo as I go on my way......"

Remind me to close down my website before I go.

S

 

[Steve Maskery]

Well guys, as of half an hour ago I am back to where I was on Sept 19th. Well not quite. My Blip.tv videos are not all recreated, but I'm not so bothered about them, the finished clips are out there. But my bandsaw DVD work is recreated. It's taken me about 10 days of editing, much of the delay is the work I've been doing about the Zambia project for Mission Direct. So that's not too bad in the grand scheme of things. I still have the Sketchup models to redo and the corresponding PDFs, but the film footage is done. I can carry on filming now!

I just want to get this finished before I get evicted and lose everything. , otherwise it will never get finished. Does anyone have any experience of putting an entire workshop into storage for an unknown period of time? I'm thinking that maybe I'd be better selling all my big stuff and buying it back if and when I ever get a workshop again.

Decisions, decisions. None of them nice ones

Cheers
Steve

 

[Doug B]

Glad to hear your are at least getting your computer sorted Steve.

As for your machines, i`d definitely go for the storage option, you loose so much money selling at second hand prices, & by the time you buy them again there has always been a price hike.

When i last moved, i rented a secure garage off an old boy for 2 years while i built the new shop. This worked out lots cheaper than paying for purpose made storage. It also meant i could easily access any tools i needed.

Do you know anyone locally who dosen`t use their garage, old biddies are usually a good bet.

 

[filsgreen]

I put all my stuff in storage when I moved to Jersey Steve, it cost about £100 a month. The storage space was for a two bedroom house. It was the Big Yellow storage company and I would recommend them. Everything was dry as the space was air conditioned and I had access 8 am till 6 pm Monday to Saturday. It was two years before I got a home with a garage in Jersey and I was so glad I stored all my kit instead of selling it off.

Phil

 

[kityuser]

A perfect example of how everybody should backup.

As has been stated before data isn't "really" saved unless its on several media preferably on several sites.

fact, harddisks fail, randomly, at any time.

Automatic backup systems are VERY easy to setup these days, ranging from OSX timemachine right through to linux embedded solutions.
Ideally you`d want a double or triple redundancy system based on daily, weekly backups and monthly archives. Incremental backups are SO easy to setup.

All our family vids/pics are archived to optical media every 6 months and taken to both sets of parent's houses in a single ring binder, SO simple and invaluable if I ever have to use them, cost? pence and a few hours, priceless as far as I`m concerned.

I also run the video cam around the house/garage every year, quickly around every room, burn it to dvd and leave copies at the parents house.

If I ever had to earn money from my OWN data, I`d be backed-up to the hilt!


8)

Steve

ps hope you got everything sorted now

 

[OPJ]

Very sorry to hear of your latest troubles, Steve. I hope it's not too long before you're woodworking again!

 

[RogerS]

A perfect example of how everybody should backup.

As has been stated before data isn't "really" saved unless its on several media preferably on several sites.

fact, harddisks fail, randomly, at any time.

Automatic backup systems are VERY easy to setup these days, ranging from OSX timemachine right through to linux embedded solutions.
Ideally you`d want a double or triple redundancy system based on daily, weekly backups and monthly archives. Incremental backups are SO easy to setup.

All our family vids/pics are archived to optical media every 6 months and taken to both sets of parent's houses in a single ring binder, SO simple and invaluable if I ever have to use them, cost? pence and a few hours, priceless as far as I`m concerned.

I also run the video cam around the house/garage every year, quickly around every room, burn it to dvd and leave copies at the parents house.

If I ever had to earn money from my OWN data, I`d be backed-up to the hilt!


8)

....

I'd second all that, Steve. I'd also urge people not to rely on any of those utilities that report the status of your SMART drives as these have been proven time and time again to give a false sense of security.

 

[kityuser]

A perfect example of how everybody should backup.

As has been stated before data isn't "really" saved unless its on several media preferably on several sites.

fact, harddisks fail, randomly, at any time.

Automatic backup systems are VERY easy to setup these days, ranging from OSX timemachine right through to linux embedded solutions.
Ideally you`d want a double or triple redundancy system based on daily, weekly backups and monthly archives. Incremental backups are SO easy to setup.

All our family vids/pics are archived to optical media every 6 months and taken to both sets of parent's houses in a single ring binder, SO simple and invaluable if I ever have to use them, cost? pence and a few hours, priceless as far as I`m concerned.

I also run the video cam around the house/garage every year, quickly around every room, burn it to dvd and leave copies at the parents house.

If I ever had to earn money from my OWN data, I`d be backed-up to the hilt!


8)

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I'd second all that, Steve. I'd also urge people not to rely on any of those utilities that report the status of your SMART drives as these have been proven time and time again to give a false sense of security.

Agreed, forget smart status, I could show you discs that report back a lovely smart status but that are **cked......

This might all sound a bit "mountain and mole hill", but I speak from experience, I`ve lost data before (long ago), not nice.... I value my time, and thus I backup everything I do....

:wink:


Steve

 

[harvestbarn]

Excellent news on the disk recovery

For many years I have used True Image and 3 or 4 1TD external hard disks which I rotate this programme takes an image of your specified hard drives so everything is there so removes the possibility of missing anything. I try and do them weekly and store them in a safe remote from the computer. The programme can be told to shut down the computer on completion which is a few hours.

When we get a decent broadband service expected early next year storage in the cloud will be another sensible option. We are expecting a pure fibre connection to the house with speeds up to 1000Mb/S we are going to try 100 first and see this is enough bearing in mind we currently have on average 2.5.

 

[lurker]

This is 7 year old post

And here was me thinking the silly old duffer had done it again :shock:
By the way Steve, whats the flag?

 

[Steve Maskery]

By the way Steve, whats the flag?

It's the Belgian Civic flag. Just my bit of respect and defiance, you know.

 

[lurker]

By the way Steve, whats the flag?

It's the Belgian Civic flag. Just my bit of respect and defiance, you know.

Nice =D>
never twigged, but as you know I'm a bit dim

 

[Wildman]

I would suggest that you go into the bios and check what disks are there. Then boot from a windows installation disk in the DVD drive the program will ask if you want to install windows or repair files. Select repair files, then reset to boot off of the repaired drive. Failing that once the computer is booted from a startup disk, try and read your hard drive, I suspect all of the files apart from windows will be intact. Keep your eyes open for changed file names, if they have been changed by a trojan it is easy enough to rename by hand. Await a phonecall telling you that you have a problem with your computer and refuse to pay them.

 

[lurker]

I would suggest that you go into the bios and check what disks are there. Then boot from a windows installation disk in the DVD drive the program will ask if you want to install windows or repair files. Select repair files, then reset to boot off of the repaired drive. Failing that once the computer is booted from a startup disk, try and read your hard drive, I suspect all of the files apart from windows will be intact. Keep your eyes open for changed file names, if they have been changed by a trojan it is easy enough to rename by hand. Await a phonecall telling you that you have a problem with your computer and refuse to pay them.

Read my post at the foot of page 2 :roll:
:lol:

 

[woodpig]

I have an external USB drive hooked up and use this Steve.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Machine_(OS_X)

I also temporarily hook up a second drive at least four or five times a year just in case.