It Can't happen To me

44Smith

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:cool: I have really been enjoying my TRS06, kept up on reading the forums, and even asked a few questions with very satisfying results. People go that extra step to be helpful. This is just a reminder to BACK UP YOUR FILES. My entire secondary drive crashed with my game going the way of the dinosaurs. 458 boards, 1 1/2 years of work, gone in the blink of an eye. Don't think "It won't happen to me", as I feel really foolish now. Ralph
 
An alternative backup solution is to burn to CD's or DVD's. Use RW's for daily or weekly backups, rotating round at least three sets of disks, and R's for less frequent backups (monthly, for example) to be kept for ever.

John
 
I had a similar experience recently when my PC crashed and I had to reset C Drive as a result of which all my routes and downloaded Content disappeared.In the last few months I"d really go stuck into the scenic side of things and I was "on a roll".I did a backup of my old PC last September when my main route was still in its infancy but for some reason I can"t find it on the DVD - only a very early, crude version.But you bounce back from these things and the new version will use TransDEM , HOG data and everything else I can throw at it!
 
Sometimes these things work out for the best though when you sit looking at your machine with a 'I can't believe it' look on your face and tears in your eyes it doesn't feel that way.

I had almost a whole county built in Ultimate Trainz on a machine that I never even connected to the internet, I was very carefull but one day - bang! The whole thing gone. I am now rebuilding it on TRS2006 which I don't think I would have done if I hadn't lost the old one.
 
If your motherboard supports a RAID system - use it. The RAID 1 uses 2 disks and keeps a mirror copy. You will have enough warning when 1 fails to back-up then rush out and buy a spare disc.

That still doesn't stop the power surge (lightning strike) problems, but it should reduce them.

Colin
 
I made a backup of my entire local folder and service pack 1 onto a DVDr and keep it with my TRS'06 originals.

Hard drives fail even Auran has had it happen and they did not even keep a backup. The biggest issue is that allot of times they fail without warning.
 
Hard drives fail even Auran has had it happen and they did not even keep a backup. The biggest issue is that allot of times they fail without warning.
?? Auran did have backups, they were dud. Which brings up an even more important point - if you make backups make sure they are readable.

Paul
 
I remember where I got everything for Trainz so if my hard drive has a nuclear meltdown (this happens with much regularity too) I just get everything again. And since I never have made (yet) any custom content like layouts I have no fear of my work disappearing. Of course I just simply have this pasted in my head whenever I hear of computer troubles: You can't have windows without panes (read closely, it works with both).

WileeCoyote:D
 
This was part of the reason why I uploaded my route %90 complete.
After some SP1 issues I was just happy to get my route back in a non-SP1 set up. Once I got it back and everything was cool I immediatly uploaded it so that in the event of a total failure I could access it later from the DLS. Just keep updating it as you go.
And dont forget to Archive or CDP regularly, I ussually save my Achives by dating the title so I know which is the most recent but I also have older version if I screw something up.

Lessons learned: After reading your post I will back up all my trainz archives on a seperate drive.

PS: it took 3 losses of major routes from me to learn to backup,
 
Hard drives fail even Auran has had it happen and they did not even keep a backup. The biggest issue is that allot of times they fail without warning.

Why do people make these incorrect assumptions about Auran and their backup policies...

Auran did say that they had backups. Auran did say that they were unrestorable. I'll believe them on that score.

especially considering my disk screwup was of my own making...

1. take two dead machines.
2. Start installing windows on one.
3. start installing windows on the other.
4. realise that you just formatted the disk that was backing up the data on the machine you didn't want to loose. realise that this is a mistake and bang head repeatedly on desk and cry 'why me'.
5. get a sense of reality and blame microsoft for making it too easy to delete partitions...

regards

Harry
 
Why do people make these incorrect assumptions about Auran and their backup policies...

Auran did say that they had backups. Auran did say that they were unrestorable.
Harry

An "unrestorable" backup? to me that means they did not have a backup.
anyhow I dont want to start a debate here.
I have lost a hard drive and all data due to my ignorance. Had to completely reinstall Windows.
 
It might just be worth pointing out that all the good advice in this thread also applies to anything else stored on your computer's hard disks that you value: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, web browser bookmarks/favourites lists, email address books, old email messages, saved web pages, photographs and other images, music tracks, etc, etc,....

John
 
As an aside john259, my nephew who's quite a techno guy, or thinks he is anyway, claims that RW disks are more robust and less prone to degradation than R disk, as they're designed to take into account numerous read/writes.
Norm
 
Do both, do all - write to CD-R and CD-RW (if you don't have much data), DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and a second hard disk drive or RAID setup. Recordable disks are very cheap and burning doesn't take long. You can never have too many backups. Backup frequently and regularly. Be sure to document what's on each disk, together with the dates. Store the disks carefully. As someone suggested earlier, every once in while make sure that you can recover what's on the backup disks. This is all totally obvious common sense advice but it's amazing how many people don't do these things.

John
 
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