You lose your purchases via hardware crashes?
daveso
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I have for sure ,... a lot of stuff, especially free items gotten via purchases of other things, and a lot of free stuff, even store purchases from stores now long gone.
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That is not a funny situation, did it happend today?
Your Daz stuff should still be available through DIM. All my old A3/V3 stuff is there from years gone by.
But then as you say, defunct stores who didn't have an install mangler are another story.
no ..but in past ..recent past ... It just came to mind talking in thread about how many purchases everyone has, and I would think many people do not back up their stuff. I'm sure I wasn't the only one
Some guidelines from a guy who spent the last 6 years of his professional career as the backup and recovery expert -
1) The "cloud" is not an acceptable long-term archive location. "Cloud" is marketing-speak for disk drives on some other entity's server which you have no control over.
2) You should have at least two backups, alternating between the two. The last thing you want to have happen is a disk read failure on your primary data while overwriting your only backup. External USB drives are relatively cheap; get at least two. More, if you want to keep a copy off-site.
3) Verify the backups are usable at least quarterly; you don't want to find out they are incomplete or unreadable when you're trying to rebuild your primary data.
I prefer a 'smart copy' utility for backups because the verification process is trivial - just fire up explorer on the target drive and browse through the files. I've been using Syncbackpro from 2BrightSparks for a couple of years now; there are others out there that may be better or just as good.
thanks..very good advice. I use an external, and a usb stick, neither of which are permanent. Wish there were something that was. Suppose though, that most of the DAZ/Poser stuff won't be all that useable in a few years anyway, and the media will outlive that usefulness.
I used to save stuff on CD and DVD, but those don't seem to last all that long, unless you buy archival quality, and most of those are 10 years max guaranteed, unless things have improved recently.
USB drives can last longer than you think - I just replaced a pair of 1 TB drives with 2 TB drives because one of them was flaking out. It tended to 'go away' and I needed to unplug it and plug it back in for it to show up. On the other hand, the drive was over 10 years old, and according to Crystal Disk Info, had more that 74,000 power-on hours. (All my home systems are on UPSes and I only shut down for filter cleaning or maintenance reboots).That's just under eight and a half years of power on time.
And yes, I did the CD/DVD backup for several years - but gave up about the time the 1 TB USB drives dropped to about $140 each and I hit 50 DVDs of DAZ purchases alone. . .