Minor Setback
Added 2015-03-12 21:33:07 +0000 UTCSo, nothing critical to the game was lost (as I keep critical stuff backed up on two hard drives... now one), but last night my main external hard drive died(?). Luckily I was able to get all(?) of my job related development software off it before it went feet up, but I'm basically spending the day assessing damage related to other projects and attempting data recovery. I believe the only things directly related to the game that I lost were a set of older versions of the game, a bunch of old render files, and animation files that I had used to test out animations early on (before I settled on the fact that it wasn't feasible to fill the entire game with them being the only developer at the time). So yeah. Awesome timing. I'll be back on track shortly though!
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I would recommend a local raid 6 NAS setup for hardware, and Acronis true-image for software. That way It's a single expenditure for an excellent local solution no real recurring cost. Numbers would be something like: Local NAS Hardware : 300-400 USD 4+ Enterprise Rated Sata drives: 300-600 USD (WD Red's go on sale ALOT) Acronis Single Site solution: 80-200 USD I used to setup systems like this for home businesses. With labor, they ran about 2 grand, but that was a one-off cost and with a raid-6 you have two drives of fault tolerance on a 4 disk array, and we would warranty the crap out of it. Always make sure you have @ least 2 spare drives on hand, and always replace when there is a failure. Offsite backup is great if you can afford it, but most small/home businesses can't afford it at the scale they would need it.
Gerald Gantos
2015-03-14 20:19:56 +0000 UTCI may do something like that for the game project exclusively as it would also save some time from running manual backups. It wouldn't be feasible for all of my project-related/work data though. Carbonite for instance runs at a base price +$100 per year per 100 GB. I have over 12 TB of project-related data, heh. I lost about 800 GB in this crash, but luckily very little of it was relevant to current work.
2015-03-14 17:49:21 +0000 UTCHey Ero, a full-drive backup service may not be a bad idea considering you are getting some significant funding now. Carbonite is one such online service, though there are many others. You could also set up an automated full backup (Full meaning backs up everything from the operating system to the recycling bin), on a 24-48 hour recycle. This means the backup would keep all changes to files from either 24 to 48 hours back.
MadKingMidas
2015-03-14 14:17:07 +0000 UTCIt seems fine physically unless the surface went bad somehow. Motor sounds normal I think, and it powers on okay. I've tried changing cables and accessing it from another PC and get similar results. I tried TestDisk and the partition is there and recognizable. Chkdsk currently seems like it is reading it but it's going super slowly. I'll probably run a surface scan later if chkdsk doesn't find anything.
2015-03-12 22:35:09 +0000 UTCdamn man,that's some spooky shit do not want to imagine the horror it would have been to lose everything good thing for backups also,what died in your drive? because if the disk is intact,you can just remove the drive from its external casing and plug it in your pc(as an internal drive)
Alxmir23
2015-03-12 22:05:47 +0000 UTC
