What is your backup plan if your laptop dies?

[WatchYourStep]

My hard drive just cakkkd out on me last night (luckily right after I deleted my only backup), but I sync most of my good music to my phone, so if worse comes to worst I can get back most of my tunes from there, and the tech at the store said he'd likely be able to recover some datas, so I should be mostly okay, but it made me realize that I really have no backup plan for if this happened while I'm working (I play for a student lounge and they're all off for christmas break, so this happened at a perfect time).

What is your backup plan?

[DZA]

Extrenal harddrive and dvd discs

[yellowhighlighter]

download all my cracks again.

[muttleydubs]

piss my pants then shit my pants

[JFK]

Find a nice quiet corner a have a cry.

[dman5000]

i usually bring a few records just in case, like greatest hits or compiliations, stuff you can replay and its either a bomb artist or diff artists and then a few singles or whatver to spice it up

[deadly_habit]

dvd backups, external hard drive and a fireproof safe

[BOOGIE BOY]

External hardives A and B, holding exactly the same data (samples, project files, vst's. Basically I have a backup of a backup, and we all need one.

[drenster]

you can actually get an Enclosure for your busted hard drive and retrieve most if not all of your files. Same situation happen to me, hard drive busted, bought a new hard drive and with my old one i put into an enclosure plugged it in through usb and now have my own external.

[collige]

Time Machine

[tripaddict]

hit the panic button lol

my laptop did this the other week but tbh i never used it much ... now it just beeps and wont turn on

im now a full time pc

[tripaddict]

Find a nice quiet corner a have a cry.

lmao i've cried before over lost data

*wonder if i should of just admitted that ? lol

[abZ]

I have lost data one time. I just sighed and moved on. You can get new data. Super highway of info innit. I have been using my wifes laptop to dj with while my dj comp is in the shop. I actually have this new system where I have the same couple folders on an external and both laptops. I'll just copy one in to the other and back again to make sure all tunes are duplicated.

[WatchYourStep]

Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig? I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.

I don't own any other equipment (in the past i've had old turntables and mixers kicking around, but i sold them all), so I'd be SOL.

[drokkr]

Extrenal harddrive and dvd discs

Same but I think I might get another external hardrive soon

[abZ]

Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig? I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.

I don't own any other equipment (in the past i've had old turntables and mixers kicking around, but i sold them all), so I'd be SOL.

Well WTF? You are fucked then. I mean you should at least have an external or even a 2/4 gig flash drive handy with you tunes. Worst case scenario you can talk one of your mates into bringing down their shit for you to play on. I have stacks of vinyl at my house, I could still play a gig even if some drops an EMP on my studio. If only I felt confident on cdj's I would never have an excuse not to do a gig.

[hurlingdervish]

take care of your feckin compooter

buy a spare battery

dont run it on high power all the time

[Wolverine]

Cry and be a miserable tnuc for a few days

try to troubleshoot the problem and repair if at all possible

if that fails, borrow, sell, do whatever i could to replace my laptop.

I really need a back up one anyways, i have one laptop, running production programs and samples etc, and i use it to play out on serato.

[angry]

Many of you are telling me ways to back up my data (which is great), but what if your computer crashed and you couldn't re-install in time for your gig?

I've got Time Machine making incremental back ups to a partition on an external hdd. Then on another partition, SuperDuper makes a clone of my MacBook hard drive, which is bootable in a couple of minutes. That gets around the problem of restoring completely from Time Machine, which takes a while. Don't know how you'd do this on Windows.

I'm talking wolverine breaks into your house and stabs your laptop. And you have to leave in 5 minutes.

Then you're screwed.

Seems to me like you're worrying too much. Backup your whole hard drive regularly onto an external hdd. Backup really important files to Dropbox - anything I'm working on currently is sync'd to that, so if my house burns down and the hard drive is destroyed, I've still got it. I'd like to get a second external hdd to keep at another house but that means £££...

[ketamine]

cry.