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littlekiwi

littlekiwi

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How do you make sure they are backed up? Dealing with an unexpected service call for my laptop (under warranty I hope) at the moment but was unable to do a back up before the screen stopped working. The service company said they will back up my data and I asked if they would go into my ps program folders to grab the brushes etc and they said no at this stage so am a bit frustrated cause I bought most of them.
 
Oops just realised this should be in the scrappy pad not here :(
 
Hmm... I keep all my brushes and actions in the designer folders on my ehd. That's my back up, I guess. They are copied to the program folders, but I keep them in designer folders, too.
 
I keep all the purchased ones in the designer folders like Kristina. If I made them myself, I save them both in wherever Adobe keeps things and another copy on my networked drive. There's a "Save as…" in the menus for styles, shapes, actions, etc.
 
Like others, I keep a copy of brushes/etc in folders on my EHD.
Hopefully your computer comes back just fine!
 
I do the same thing as the other girls said. I have a file called styles/brushes. Every time I buy a kit that has them, I put them in there. It makes it easier for me to load them too.
 
i have a folder on desktop called ps mine, whenever i install a style etc, i put a copy in there
 
I back up to a writable DVD, then to our server, and some stuff I put on an EHD too. Just to make sure I have all my bases covered.
 
is there a viewer, or something let ou pick an choose one
 
I move everything scrap related into my external hard drives. I get the kit or whatever tool I buy, use or reserve for later, but always going into the EHD, which I have backed up online, even so , I need another back up for when the back up fails ...I did a restore last year after one of my EHDs died...lots of folders came back empty :(
 
I'm like everyone else. I keep brush/style/action files in a folder labeled that, and then let Adobe add it and store it where ever it does. Then, my folder is on both my EHD's and backed up to my online backup. Slight overkill, I know!

cookingmylife said:
I don't want to hear this! Ack! omg that's scary!
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This is one of the reasons that I go in and restore random folders on the firstish of the the month. (Usually the first Sunday, not the first day). That way I know that it is being backed up and that I know how to restore it!
 
cookingmylife said:
I don't want to hear this! Ack! omg that's scary!
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bestcee said:
I'm like everyone else. I keep brush/style/action files in a folder labeled that, and then let Adobe add it and store it where ever it does. Then, my folder is on both my EHD's and backed up to my online backup. Slight overkill, I know!

This is one of the reasons that I go in and restore random folders on the firstish of the the month. (Usually the first Sunday, not the first day). That way I know that it is being backed up and that I know how to restore it!
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thing is, the problem there was with particularly Crash Plan, now called Code 42.
I know because of two things: Carol @Iowan had the same problem with them and the way things happened... I know is Crash Plan that does not warn you about corruption files.....

When I was with Backblaze, all was perfect until one day after almost 3 years, they write to me and tell me my data has been compromised, so please uninstall and install again, as they had stopped the back ups to prevent any more data loses. I asked them for help to uninstall and install, they said they didnt offer that service (even though I offered to pay for the call or get on skype or even Facebook chat...nothing.
So I went to Crash Plan which had a very good live customer service chat and people were amazing.
after 2 years, last year I saw some kits had disappeared, I thought it was weird that some stuff from, for example, Pink Reptile or Danyale that I use a lot, weren't there on search.... but thought maybe my computer was act9ing out as it is so old...it was one of the EHD failing, now I am no0t sure of it is from my end, that some corrupted file did that, or the EHD just was old and stopped working... OR if it is on the other end.
The Backblaze people wouldn't even give me an explanation, so I will never know... on top of things , I thought those were deleted folders I deleted by mistake, so when I restored, I( clicked on show deleted files...so now I have trillions of kits repeated....need to do the purging things again.... I am bad at that... I cry when I have to delete kits.... LOL

I need to think very wisely before I open my new computer and think which EHD will go where...and I may start another baxk up of the new with Backblaze again..... at least they warned me ...
 
I was just sick when my computer crashed and I thought I had backed up only to find 100s of empty folders with Crash Plan. I had most of my pages backed up on external drives, but I had not thought about backing up things like actions, brushes, etc. Lesson learned the hard way!
 
I recently had a hard drive die and I restored through CrashPlan. I did not have any empty folders in that restore, however, CrashPlan had said the drive was completely backed up when it was actually about one-third backed up. I was able to restore the rest of my files by showing "deleted files" from the location where I had stored everything before I moved them to the drive that died, so it turned out okay for me, but I was quite annoyed about it, and went digging around all my other backups.

I did indeed find several empty folders in other backups. Again, fortunately not the one that I actually needed, but who's to say I will not need to restore these other folders another day? As my CrashPlan is up for renewal soon anyway, I decided to switch to BackBlaze. It happens to be cheaper, and it runs better on my machine as well (uses less RAM and CPU) so I am a total convert now. And with the money we are saving by switching, I am buying an extra hard drive for a local backup too.
 
lorryfach said:
I recently had a hard drive die and I restored through CrashPlan. I did not have any empty folders in that restore, however, CrashPlan had said the drive was completely backed up when it was actually about one-third backed up. I was able to restore the rest of my files by showing "deleted files" from the location where I had stored everything before I moved them to the drive that died, so it turned out okay for me, but I was quite annoyed about it, and went digging around all my other backups.

I did indeed find several empty folders in other backups. Again, fortunately not the one that I actually needed, but who's to say I will not need to restore these other folders another day? As my CrashPlan is up for renewal soon anyway, I decided to switch to BackBlaze. It happens to be cheaper, and it runs better on my machine as well (uses less RAM and CPU) so I am a total convert now. And with the money we are saving by switching, I am buying an extra hard drive for a local backup too.
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well, then mow I am even more convinced am going back to BackBlaze, what I'll do though, is try to recover the dolders that came empoty by going back in time to before the crash, ad see is I can get them..... then I ll get backbalze for the new computer.... gonna need to start backing up the EHDs too...oh too much energy needed for all this not much will power right now .... :(
 
I COPY EVERYTHING SINGLE THING I PURCHASE TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE for backup. This includes a folder where I keep bushes, actions etc. Another with all the zips I download from scrapping sites, another with yearly zips of my pages.
 
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