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My main workstation crashed right before a big deadline
It was last Thursday, about an hour before I had to send the final shop drawings for a big apartment job. The whole thing just froze, then went to a blue screen. I had to pull the old files from the server backup, but I lost about two hours of my last check. Had to call the client and push the deadline, which felt awful. Anyone have a good backup routine that runs without you even thinking about it?
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adam75129d ago
Simon, that 4 PM manual copy routine sounds solid, but I've got to ask - what happens when you get that one call at 3:55 PM that blows the rest of your day? I've been in that spot where a client pulls me into a last-minute crisis call (always happens right before quitting time) and suddenly it's 6 PM and I haven't touched the backup. The set-it-and-forget-it tools are scary because you don't see the files move, but manual routines have that same blind spot when life gets chaotic. So seriously, how do you handle the days when your schedule gets ripped apart at the last minute?
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simonb921mo ago
Man, that's brutal timing. I get why you'd want a set-it-and-forget-it backup, but I've never trusted those to catch everything. My routine is manual because I've been burned before. Every single day at 4 PM, I copy my active project folder to an external drive on my desk. It takes two minutes and I do it while I'm packing up. Seeing the file transfer happen is the only way I know it's done right.
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