Never trust your Hard drive!

Dunedoo

Dunedoo

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I was getting a bit cocky as I had a near new Toshiba Laptop (6 months old) and being lazy with backing up my wallets thinking what could wrong with a new laptop or backing my wallets on the actual laptop.
By shear luck or the Dash God was talking to me, I backed up my wallets, chucked the USB in my draw and went on my merry way. I never close down programs or do a complete shut down of my laptop.
Next morning on the way to work, I open up the laptop and bingo, a nice black screen with bullshit messages.
I had wallets everywhere on it, Bit, Doge, Feather, Peer, Taco, Digibyte, Fedora, Bunny, Ozzie, Lite and my precious Dash.
To cut the long story short, My warranty got me a new HD, I only have one active wallet running now. Yes, its Dash.
I have time capsuled my other coins wallets (USB). Maybe they will be worth something in the future.

I'm glad I backed up my Dash wallet now and in hindsight should've got the extended warranty as well.
 
May I add that it's not only a good idea to have several(!) backups (backup-drives can fail as well), but also at different locations if things REALLY go South.

Some at home, some at work, some at my parents....drives are cheap, Dash not.
 
I have my Dash backed up on 2 USB's now. Have you ever had a USB fail?
 
tungfa said:
Things do NOT exist if they are not on 3 different HD's
That is my computer rule of thump
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yup. just have my main wallet calf on me the other day. Talk about sweating out a storm. Computer baked on me...but I managed to through it on a usb drive before it gave up the ghost. Holy smokes....stressfull. Hadn't backed up since Feb of this year. Which reminds me...I always date stamp my backups...if I have a back up from say January...does that work for backing up?
 
bigrcanada said:
yup. just have my main wallet calf on me the other day. Talk about sweating out a storm. Computer baked on me...but I managed to through it on a usb drive before it gave up the ghost. Holy smokes....stressfull. Hadn't backed up since Feb of this year. Which reminds me...I always date stamp my backups...if I have a back up from say January...does that work for backing up?
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i am on a Mac and do this super manual, i do not trust backup softwares

My wallets are all in folder - Example:
Dash_private_11thMay2015
Dash_MN_9thJune2014
Dash_FundraiserVideo_8thOct2014

i have them on 4 different USB Drives in 2 different locations (different houses) + 1 in Waterproofed casing (Pelican)
(yes the paranoia is strong with this one)
i then back them up once a week onto the USB drives
(pain to do, but super save !)
:smile:
 
One of the reasons I posted was that it is rare to see someone posting that their machine is stuffed. I've learnt one, back up like your depends on it. Thanks for sharing your stories.
 
bigrcanada said:
yup. just have my main wallet calf on me the other day. Talk about sweating out a storm. Computer baked on me...but I managed to through it on a usb drive before it gave up the ghost. Holy smokes....stressfull. Hadn't backed up since Feb of this year. Which reminds me...I always date stamp my backups...if I have a back up from say January...does that work for backing up?
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I tested an old backup and it only had half the balance of expected as I'd mixed with it and new keys had been created, fortunately I wasn't relying on it!
 
Sub-Ether said:
It will fail if you put it in the microwave oven, try to avoid that happening :grin:
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Exactly
+ my "paranoia" is not only technical but
Environmental , tsunami , fire , ....
Waterproofed casing !! (Pelican)
 
tungfa said:
Easy to do
Send double encrypted drive home to mum :smile:
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Is this the Pelican brand?
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