Learning to back up your work the hard way.
By megamatt
@megamatt (14291)
United States
June 1, 2011 12:37pm CST
First of all, I'm sure teachers have told many of you that its of extreme important to back up your work on the computer. Still a very many of us scoff, and think that its not worth our time. Well you know Murphy's Law, anything that can go wrong, will at the worst possible time. Some time back, I learned the hardway that you really do need to create those back ups, and a back up to the back up if you're so inclined, as not only can a computer fail, but it can in fact fail just when you're done with a big assignment.
And then in my case, about eight or nine years back when this happened, you have to stay up all night, trying to cobble as much of it as possible together by hand, to try and scrape by a passing grade. So yeah, many of us do learn the hard way that you need to back up your work when doing it on a computer. It doesn't have to be anything really fancy, just zipping it up and e-mailing it to an online Yahoo or G-Mail account would work in most cases. Did any of you learn that the teachers weren't just blowing hot air the hard way and lost your hard work due to computer failure? Looking forward to hearing your horror stories.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
1 Jun 11
I'm a film student, so I can lose A WHOLE LOT more than just time spent typing if I don't back up my work. But here's the problem, I make multiple back-ups all the time, and it seems when Murphy's Law is really going... it's going to hit all of my back-ups. I learned the hard way not to completely rely on one hard-drive for anything... because hard-drives crash and freeze all of the time. Once they're gone, then they're done-for and there's hardly any chance you'll even get your files back.
So yeah... never thought teachers were just being annoying asking us to back our stuff up. My problem is getting the back-ups to behave.
@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
1 Jun 11
I think the only time the work is ever truly safe is when it doesn't involve technology. lol Well... actually that's not true either because there are fires and floods and dogs who eat things.
A lot of my work I don't want to just forget about when I get my grade... I want to keep it for my reel and for portfolio.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
1 Jun 11
Ah yes, technology is not the only thing that is going wrong. Those homework eating dogs are getting more and more people very year. And I'm sure that actual has happened, although if that did, I would come up with a different reason. Something like aliens stole my homework for science or something like that. But I digress, I think there are many things that I would like to have a copy of that I did for various reasons. Thanks for responding.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
1 Jun 11
I once had a teacher who handed back one of my graded papers all ripped up and crinkly with a note written on it that said, "I'm sorry. My dog ate YOUR homework." lol... so it does happen but it sounds like a really bad excuse all the time.
That and I tend to put my homework on DVDs and hard-drives, which dogs are less likely to eat. Oh, and I don't have a dog! lol
@bluejay77 (4)
• United States
2 Jun 11
I agree wholeheartedly. It's called being prepared for the worse.
A little extra work now, will same time if you ever have a mishap.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
2 Jun 11
Its a difference between a little work now or a lot of work later, trying to do what you've already done. Yeah, I think that its the little work backing up now that I would most certainly prefer. I do think that if I could go back in time, one of the things that I would do is smack myself across the face for not feeling the need to back it up that one time. Then again, its a lesson learned the hard way. Sometimes people have to learn through practical means. Thanks for responding. Its appreciated. Have a nice day.
