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It's such a sinking feeling to have a device fail and realize that I don't have a reliable backup. I keep having to learn the hard way. I finally learned to keep backups of my SD cards on my external hard drive and a copy of my Mac's inportant info. on my external hard drive (along with the only copies of my Movies and Music and Pictures and other media.) When my external hard drive hiccupped and decided to want to be reformatted, I was completely bummed. Luckily, I was able to restore my music from my iPod to the re-initialized external hard drive, but I lost all my movies and pictures and such.
I want to get into the habit of making regular DVD backups, but I feel like it's so wasteful to keep burning DVD's that I may not use until I make the next batch of DVD backups (I'm a recycle-reduce-reuse kinda guy), but I feel like that's the way the world is headed where data is an acceptable use of resources (ie, the bits and bytes are more valuable than the plastic they're saved on.) It's like in the Film/Video biz, before you shoot anything the camera and other pieces of equipment are th most valuable pieces of equipment on the set, but after you've recorded a scene or whatever that media is now the most valuable piece of equipment because it'll cost more than the sum of the moviemaking parts to recreate that footage if it's lost.
I also want to wait until I have enough of the right data before I make these DVD backups, but that's just another excuse. I really should be making backups as we speak. But I'm lazy.
POL9A
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