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June 8, 2009 - 10:47pm — J.A. Spahr-Summers

So two weeks ago our computer crashed at work, it has taken this long to get a new one installed. While I was rather daunted (in my own unique paranoid way) by the idea of probably losing 8 months or one year's worth of art and manuscripts, Amy was strangely calm and cool and collected.

"We'll make more!" She said.

I have to admit, her attitude calmed me to a certain extent, but I continued to fret until last night. My boss (formerly our techie until it was out-sourced) managed to transfer everything (amounting to hundreds of images) to his computer. In a day or two I'll transfer everything to discs (like I told Amy I needed to do about three weeks ago).

All hail to Satan (my boss)!

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June 9, 2009 - 11:56am — aanji
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backing up

Hey Jeff - glad you didn't lose a years work, but Amy was absolutely right. I had a fire in '84 and lost twenty years worth of negatives and if I had them now I wouldn't know where to keep them. I am totally digital now and just the other day was looking at my back-up hard drive considering getting a back-up for the back-up - I believe I will, and store it at work; covering crashes and house fires in one deft swoop.
You might consider an external HD to back-up to instead of discs, much faster and once you start the process, you can do other stuff.
michael