One thousand dollars gone - backup your data!!

[lowBoy]

**** Hand #771238724 ****
Seat 5: lowBoy ($1000 of his Worldly Money)
Seat 3: A Large Phallus of Fate ($Like A Bunch Of Dollars)

lowBoy posts blind $1000
lowBoy: [JsTs]
A Large Phallus of Fate checks
Flop: OH GOD MY HARD DRIVE CRASHED HOLY SHIT NOW MY COMPUTER DOESN'T WORK - WHAT ARE YOU DOIN' IN THERE, PHALLUS?!??!

Okay, that metaphor went nowhere, but you get the drift.

So I'm a webdesigner/developer, right?

And I've been working on this one project for my employers for the past 4 months...

And I haven't uploaded any changes to their server in 2 months or otherwise backed up my project data...

And my laptop hard disk decides to die on me, taking the data stored on it...

The estimated cost (to me personally, cause what am I gonna say to them?) to recover my last 8 weeks' worth of work: $1000

I think it's -EV that I didn't back up my data properly and then this happened.

Discuss.

[arkana]

You played out of your bankroll and you got burned.

[Lukie]

nh sir

[AHiltz]

V2i Protector (backs up drives on the fly without having to reboot to DOS)

[Warpe]

"PhallusOfFate"...great nick

[rubixstreub]

I'm also a designer/graphic artist and I've had my hard drive fry twice, RAM go bad, and my laptop stolen taking my entire portfolio with it. BUY an external drive and BACK YOUR SHIT up at least every two weeks (I recommend the lacie Porsche 250gb, cause it looks nice and is fast). I feel your pain, but it always takes a hard lesson (or two) before you see the light.