Not that it happens much but last Friday right in the middle of a major project my video drive dies. Needles to say all my projects were on that drive, I tried everything to get that drive backup and running. Talk about wishing you had a good backup! I felt so stupid for not having a backup since I am a network engineer by day and I am always preaching to my customers about how important a good backup is. Oh isn't it ironic!
Long story short after calling several data recovery vendor's (very expensive $850- 3000 dollars was a little pricey) and buying an identical drive to switch out the platters (I know how bad that sounds considering they aren't supposed to be opened in anything less than a 100% clean room (hay it was a shot!) I was about to give up and start fresh on the project roughly 40 hours of work lost.
I remembered Vegas had crashed earlier that day (before the drive died) and asked me when I reopened it to save the project as something else. I did a search for all .veg files and sure enough there was a restored008 veg file, opened it up and sure enough there was my M.I.A project!
In over a year 1/2 it's only crashed on me 8 times and man is I happy it did when it did.
Well after that I bought my self a DLT tape drive because even though I have a DVD burner it never seems to get used for backup job's because of my procrastination so I will have nightly backups for now on.
Oh and man I am glad for the capture bin's I just loaded them back up and recaptured exactly as they were, sweet!
Long story short after calling several data recovery vendor's (very expensive $850- 3000 dollars was a little pricey) and buying an identical drive to switch out the platters (I know how bad that sounds considering they aren't supposed to be opened in anything less than a 100% clean room (hay it was a shot!) I was about to give up and start fresh on the project roughly 40 hours of work lost.
I remembered Vegas had crashed earlier that day (before the drive died) and asked me when I reopened it to save the project as something else. I did a search for all .veg files and sure enough there was a restored008 veg file, opened it up and sure enough there was my M.I.A project!
In over a year 1/2 it's only crashed on me 8 times and man is I happy it did when it did.
Well after that I bought my self a DLT tape drive because even though I have a DVD burner it never seems to get used for backup job's because of my procrastination so I will have nightly backups for now on.
Oh and man I am glad for the capture bin's I just loaded them back up and recaptured exactly as they were, sweet!