Regarding Computer Crashes And Your videos

[MightyHypnotic]

Hey everyone.

I want to address something that I am sure other producers deal with a lot, I know I do, and that is the loss of videos due to a computer crash or a disk crash or lightning strike or any other reasons to make your ones and zeroes go bye bye.


I get constant requests to re-download files all the time. I try to help out but when I built my sites, I didn't make a provision to do this easily. Which means I have to go in one by one and send them. I suppose I could write code to handle this for me but that takes a lot of time and honestly, does that responsibility lie with the producer? Or should you, as a consumer, be ...ahem...backing up your files??

Now, don't get me wrong. I sympathize. I really do. As a matter of fact, I have a bricked hard drive that I keep on my desk. I've had it for 10 years. It's half filled with content that you and I will never see because I never backed it up and it failed within 6 months of purchase. Stuff from back in 2005 I tried all the tricks. Freezing it, yelling at it, I had my girlfriend at the time try to seduce it, but it wouldn't give up the goods. So it sits there, as a reminder for me to back up my work and my files.

So I appeal to you all. Get some kind of backup! Look at this little guy.

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He can hold 64 gig of stuffs and it's 3.0 which means you could view it right from the stick, you don't even need to put it on your hard drive! (Of course, then you would need a backup for your backup, but I digress) What's best? if it comes down that you might be found out by your significant other, you can swallow the evidence! (You could even look for it in your poop later on when the coast is clear).

AND, It's only 23 beans! Plus free shipping with your Amazon Prime! Hey hey! great deal!

Anyway, you get the point. Backups are fun! (No they're not but they're really handy!)

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[Heroine Addict]

For a backup of a backup, there's always this:



Just in case someone stacks all your HDDs near a subwoofer and they all get wiped.

[Helpless]

Just got my Blu Ray DVD writer yesterday...

[KnightsofGotham.com]

I would like to address this as a person who has a fetish himself and spends money on his fetish.
The process of backing up to a cloud or other system has been a lifesaver for me especially when the computer breaks and I have to send it to a shop to get fixed.

On a mac I would suggest you create a folder and put all your movies there.
then turn on time machine and set it to that folder.

Dropbox is also a good alternative if you want pure cloud service. its free and with every computer you add to it it gives you more space. Im up to 50 gigs and still not paying a penny.

[Ezekiel]

^Don't mean to be paranoid but afaik the privacy of the data stored on that dropbox service might be an issue. If fetish videos fall in the category of stuff you wouldn't want to disclose, maybe it would be a good idea to forget about dropbox (or any cloud service for paranoia's sake) and just store it locally. I use an external hdd myself and I make use of heavy encription. The nazis themselves wouldn't be able to crack open that little fucker.

[TIEnTEEZ]

I back up all my videos, especially my customs, on an external hard drive, and I also keep copies on both my PC and my laptop. Images spending hundreds of dollars on a custom video and then losing it to a hard drive crash? You have to be crazy not to keep backups.

[KnightsofGotham.com]

^Don't mean to be paranoid but afaik the privacy of the data stored on that dropbox service might be an issue. If fetish videos fall in the category of stuff you wouldn't want to disclose, maybe it would be a good idea to forget about dropbox (or any cloud service for paranoia's sake) and just store it locally. I use an external hdd myself and I make use of heavy encription. The nazis themselves wouldn't be able to crack open that little fucker.

I was afraid years ago, but after nearly 20 years doing this Ive stopped worrying.
My kinks don't include children, adults pretending to be children, people screwing animals, or animals screwing animals for that fact. it's plain ole consenting guy/girl consensual kink.

I'm sure the religious right would take offense but thats not whats in play.

Truth is externals die, redundant externals can get expensive, and discs degrade, scratch and break.

For me personally this is the best option, I'm not stopping anytime soon

[KnightsofGotham.com]

Although I suppose if you were on a mac and were afraid of security you could always use time machine from january 1st to Decmebr 31st then zip that folder and send that up to the cloud and start January 1st fresh. that way you have reliability, and security...but I really haven't given it much thought.

[Heroine Addict]

I was afraid years ago, but after nearly 20 years doing this Ive stopped worrying.
My kinks don't include children, adults pretending to be children, people screwing animals, or animals screwing animals for that fact. it's plain ole consenting guy/girl consensual kink.

I'm sure the religious right would take offense but thats not whats in play.

Truth is externals die, redundant externals can get expensive, and discs degrade, scratch and break.

For me personally this is the best option, I'm not stopping anytime soon

Even if you're not storing anything illegal, your data could still be subject to the whims of the staff at DropBox. This genre suffers frequent denials / withdrawals of service when businesses do not wish to handle certain fetish content.

[viking]

I would like to address this as a person who has a fetish himself and spends money on his fetish.
The process of backing up to a cloud or other system has been a lifesaver for me especially when the computer breaks and I have to send it to a shop to get fixed.

On a mac I would suggest you create a folder and put all your movies there.
then turn on time machine and set it to that folder.

Dropbox is also a good alternative if you want pure cloud service. its free and with every computer you add to it it gives you more space. Im up to 50 gigs and still not paying a penny.

The First Law of Economics - There is no such thing as a free lunch. Be sure to read the "terms of use" agreements very carefully.

[Mr. X]

I have two alternating USB drives which I user robocopy on every other day. every 2 weeks I swap drives and one goes into my store room off site.

[KnightsofGotham.com]

I would like to address this as a person who has a fetish himself and spends money on his fetish.
The process of backing up to a cloud or other system has been a lifesaver for me especially when the computer breaks and I have to send it to a shop to get fixed.

On a mac I would suggest you create a folder and put all your movies there.
then turn on time machine and set it to that folder.

Dropbox is also a good alternative if you want pure cloud service. its free and with every computer you add to it it gives you more space. Im up to 50 gigs and still not paying a penny.

The First Law of Economics - There is no such thing as a free lunch. Be sure to read the "terms of use" agreements very carefully.

I did and found nothing that is of any issue.
the closest thing is the line:
publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that contain extreme acts of violence;

but the analytics must prove that the content in question was published or shared.
since the content i am hosting is not published or shared I am safe and their own analytics would prove that.


and to answer any confusion publish does not mean upload, but instead publish means upload and then generate and share a link to that content. so if I uploaded a porn and gave out download links thier analytics would see that its a shared item and then on review they would find its porn and then delete my account.

Only accounts that publish public links are audit able. so as long as I never publish a link to anything on my account my account can never come up for review.....
yeah...i not only read the TOS but researched their meanings....so yeah.

[Mr. X]

I use the blue ray burner for super backups.

[Superfreak]

Great thread... Fortunately I've never lost any data. But recently that reality dawned on me after realizing how much I've spent through the years

So I picked up a 2TB external backup drive and copied all my SH stuff over and now just download to both drives (3.0).

As far as the cloud... I'd say your pretty safe as long as your not doing anything illegal or committing a crime. Really, what's the difference between the law obtaining access to your cloud account or busting down your door with a warrant and seizing your computer?

To me, this fetish is becoming less taboo and more mainstream with everyday that passes. While I thought I was a little weird for liking this stuff 5-7 years ago. Not so much anymore with how large the community and variety of producers have become.

[drh1966]

Great piece of advice. I have no sympathy for people who don't back up their data. As a programmer, this was one of the first rules I was taught, always save your work regularly and back it up to more than one place. I can't count the number of times I've seen people lose their minds because they lost their files and all due to not backing it up.

[Visitor]

Even if you are legally safe, there isn't any guarantee you cloud backup can't get lost because their servers get damaged or the company goes out of business. It's best to have multiple backup where you can control the conditions they are kept in against damage.

Legal businesses that used Megaupload lost their files when the company had legal problems over illegal uploads. No one was paying the bills so some places just stopped storing everything while the legal disputes went through the courts.

[Maskfan]

While we are on this subject, I have another suggestion.

Scan your photographs and save to media. Place that media copy in a fireproof safe, or bank box.

Because, if there is ever an incident and they get destroyed...they are gone.

[KnightsofGotham.com]

there isn't any guarantee you cloud backup can't get lost because their servers get damaged or the company goes out of business.

There also isn't any guarantee that your hard rive won't crash and your redundant backups fail as well. there is no guarantee that your house won't catch on fire and all of your physical media won't go up in flame.
point is...there is no guarantee for anything.

I understand where you were trying to come from but that logic is tragically flawed.

I dont do things half assed and unlike so many people I don't do things blindly. google dropbox and see who its owned by, what the companies worth is, who is involved financially and what their current standing is.
I did all of that before I put file one into it.

Look also into their redundant systems. search for the protection "safety net"

Even a half assed background search would provide enough satisfaction to trust it.

I did more than a half assed research attempt and found them acceptable.

Fear for no other reason than fear itself is limiting.
there are times to be cautious and then theres a massive multitude of things missed out on living in blind fear

As for your example......
a company that thrived off of hosting illegal files VS a company that bends backwards to make sure illegal files are not shared.
again, a halfassed research would show the massive differences between the two companies.



So.... final analysis.....
If you are going to store on a cloud service make sure the files aren't against their T.O.S and make sure they are not a flyby night.
then you will be as safe as possible.

throw your files blindly into any cloud and risk getting screwed, but don't be afraid to examine and research options


And thats where I am leaving this thread.

[Visitor]

One word, Microsoft. A company that's not going away. We will skip the illegal activities they've done since they have bought their way out of almost all of them. Lots of technical support.

Still had lots of angry customers when their servers lost hundreds of emails that weren't backed up in their system.