So I can’t really say how on edge I can get sometimes about my stuff. I’ve never really been bitten by a HD failure1, but I sure do goddamn worry about it. It doesn’t help that the external drive I’ve had for a bit now and use for all my music/big files/complete backup of my powerbook has been making funny noises lately.
But I’ve had a 20GB Strongspace account now for about 6 months, and have meant to toss all my valuable digital possessions up there (outside of my music, which wouldn’t fit) for awhile now. I got to it yesterday, uploading ~12GB via rsync, and it feels good.
While I was at it, I wrote a nice ruby script to do everything for me, and it works nice. It’s pasted up in all it’s glory. I tell it which files to upload and where, and it handles the rest for me.
I’ve been thinking that I need another external drive to backup onto, the one I have is an old enclosure that I installed a new 200GB drive into last summer, and I think that I broke the fan throttle, because the fan is always on full, very whiny and loud. Also it’s been making what I feel are bad noises lately, and I really would rather not lose all the stuff I have there.
1 It’s happened a time or two, the most substantial loss was all the digital photos I’d taken before 2004, which I’d mass uploaded to flickr, so I didn’t really lose them. Other then that, schoolwork – but I won’t miss it.