Data Retrieval

Data Retrieval

I'm pleased to report that, following some slight over-indulgence on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, I am well and truly backed-up.

2018 has seen us generate more bytes than we've ever done before, what with podcasts, videos, blogs and general nonsensical Twittering. The folder on our laptop called 'Screenshots' is not far away from holding 9000 individual files  - mostly to do with 'Are You Being Served?', it must be admitted.
Now, it's true that the majority of these images will only ever be used once, but you never know when these things will come in handy.

But it's good practice to keep an eye on your data and if anything did go drastically wrong with our trusty laptop there would be a fair bit of work involved in trying to find everything again.

So today, I have mostly been making copies of stuff onto a new 2-terabyte hard-drive, which will both give me peace of mind and allow me to tidy up some of our more unwieldy files.

Of course, once upon a time 48K seemed like a ridiculously large amount of memory. With the ZX-81 and the ZX Spectrum being my first computers, tape storage was about as complicated as it got. It was only with the Amiga A1200 that I first got to play with even a little hard-drive.

We've only had one major computer failure and even then we never really lost anything that couldn't be recovered, but you hear enough horror stories to at least be aware of what could happen.

It's easy to let things slide, but now we've got a number of articles in hand for 2019 editions of 'Round The Archives', it would be ironic if our own archiving let us down.

Of course, having now written this blog entry, today's back-up is now already out of date, but you can't have everything. And yes, you can see a folder for Episode 31 in that list...

In other news, Paul has released the live Christmas Day edition of 'The Shy Life Podcast' in which he is in the vicinity of Uranus and we attempt every innuendo in the (naughty) book to try and make him laugh out loud on air.

So if you want to heard about our cats' new balls, possibly getting to grips with a horn and wrapping your lips around a lovely pear, have a listen to the blatant rudery going on here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)