Got a bad case of the flu. Nothing new now, nor til this is flushed out of my system.
Suckage.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Happy Friken New Year
OK. I'm only going to bitch about this once (today).
I had two very productive and sweet sounding days in the studio Friday and Saturday. However, due to technical difficulties (the source of which is still being researched and not known), I not only lost all the work I did those days, but the backups taken after each session were also all corrupt. VERY disappointed. Like losing a puppy.
So today and tomorrow will be about recreating, not creating, and coming up with a new triple verification quadruple redundant hourly backup scheme. It's crap like this that almost disappoints me to the point of stopping recording.
And I was SO careful too - after each session (about 2 hours a pop) I backed up the ENTIRE recording project to a separate internal HD, and and external HD. I then let Time Machine do its thing to back up just the changed files to the time capsule drive. I then even REOPENED the backed up projects to make sure they were openable and valid. They were. The next morning when I go to start another session, the computer hangs on trying to access the external drive. No problem... nothing was running, the files were not open, so I do a hard reboot. Starts up fine I go to open the projects - ... - ... ERROR -39 encountered - data lost. So I restore from backups, feeling all "see - this is why..." and so glad I had backups. SAME THING! I try the manual backups - SAME THING. Restored last version from Time Machine. S.A.M.E. T.H.I.N.G!!!
Pissed and ready to cry, I try a time machine version from back on Dec 31. Thank GOD it was good. But I lost everything else.
So now, just for fun and torture, I am moving to record on my laptop now. Installing all the software and current drivers for my stuff and just starting a new approach.
Here's to a better 2011 that what I've had so far. Wish you could have heard the new tracks - VERY interesting...
I had two very productive and sweet sounding days in the studio Friday and Saturday. However, due to technical difficulties (the source of which is still being researched and not known), I not only lost all the work I did those days, but the backups taken after each session were also all corrupt. VERY disappointed. Like losing a puppy.
So today and tomorrow will be about recreating, not creating, and coming up with a new triple verification quadruple redundant hourly backup scheme. It's crap like this that almost disappoints me to the point of stopping recording.
And I was SO careful too - after each session (about 2 hours a pop) I backed up the ENTIRE recording project to a separate internal HD, and and external HD. I then let Time Machine do its thing to back up just the changed files to the time capsule drive. I then even REOPENED the backed up projects to make sure they were openable and valid. They were. The next morning when I go to start another session, the computer hangs on trying to access the external drive. No problem... nothing was running, the files were not open, so I do a hard reboot. Starts up fine I go to open the projects - ... - ... ERROR -39 encountered - data lost. So I restore from backups, feeling all "see - this is why..." and so glad I had backups. SAME THING! I try the manual backups - SAME THING. Restored last version from Time Machine. S.A.M.E. T.H.I.N.G!!!
Pissed and ready to cry, I try a time machine version from back on Dec 31. Thank GOD it was good. But I lost everything else.
So now, just for fun and torture, I am moving to record on my laptop now. Installing all the software and current drivers for my stuff and just starting a new approach.
Here's to a better 2011 that what I've had so far. Wish you could have heard the new tracks - VERY interesting...