The computer trade says: 'Data doesn't exist unless it exists in two separate locations.'
I'm into film but I subsequently use computers for my images, not to mention my music making and production, finances, work etc. etc. I have multiple hard disks and those disks are partitioned but that doesn't really count as separate locations. Back-up to CD or whatever and store off-site is my suggestion. If you do a lot of work, do this every week. Pain in the neck but if you're serious there's no other way. Two years ago I switched my machine on and went to brew my coffee. When I came back I was greeted with a black screen saying 'invalid system disk'. We've all seen that before? Floppy left in the drive... err no! panicking phone calls ensued and the swapping of hard disks between machines (it's great to have a spare machine on these occasions) revealed that quite simply my 3 month old IBM (class product) hard disk had died. The other disk and the rest of the machine was okay (so no spikes etc.) I had a two week old back-up of my data and an image of C: so I bought a new disk and was up and running in half and hour but the loss of two weeks data was a pain. Hard disks are mechanical spinning devices and they will fail. Fact! The questions is when, the answer is the next second or the next ten years or anywhere in between. Back-up and be happy. Anton _______________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime, only �13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
