datamusicata

Welcome to another Monday. I’ve spent the last five days wrestling with my laptop (new) trying to get whatever worm/virus/caca that got in there to leave and allow me to go back to just using it effortlessly. So far, I am screaming at the wind.

Which brings us to today’s post. No matter what you are doing. No matter how important or unimportant it is. No matter how little you change it. Try to remember this, cause it’s a big one.

BACK IT UP!

I have been unable to post the articles that I have written because they are locked in the ether in the laptop. I have tried for days to extract them to no avail. Hence the lack of posts here, because I kept thinking I’d get them back any second and wouldn’t have to reproduce them from memory. No chance.

BACK IT UP!

Put it on a flash drive...put it on a cd or dvd, but put it someplace else so that you can go and get it and install it on another computer because as wonderful as these things are, they are also squirrelly. Computers are almost reliable. NOT RELIABLE! Almost reliable, so you have to head them off at the pass.

I’ve been working at my studio computer on a new CD, “Backstage At The Resurrection” and I have five or six things almost done. And I have’t backed up anything?

What am I? An Idiot?

BACK IT UP!

The best way to do this is to keep all the info for each song in it’s own separate folder. Then put each folder on a separate CD so that each song has it’s own CD, you see? And don’t forget to make two copies...yes, two copies.

And put them in different places.

One copy and things can happen to it. Statistically, you stand a pretty good chance of being able to retrieve your data if you have two copies of it. Something can still go wrong, but at least you have done your best to cover your act.

So the short post for today, in case you forgot, is...

BACK IT UP!