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Re: HELP!

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nylon netSep 8, 2012
 

 
My backups of JAM consist of:
1. My NAS (using RAID5 for data redundancy - one disk can die and I'll lose no data)
2. I upload episodes to my domain.
3. On my hard disk at work.
4. On my hard disk in my home cave.
5. Every so often, I dump them all to a 1 TB USB hard disk, just to be safe.
6. In the past dumped stuff to DVD, so I have lots of older versions of episodes there.

I recently planned to duplicate everything to Dropbox, but realised I was probably going a tad too far.

It will take several floods, fires and meteors to account for all of my JAMs.

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From: j_a_m_fan@...
Sent: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:17:00 -0000
To: just-a-minute@...
Subject: [just-a-minute] Re: HELP!

 

To Paul and Mark ....

Thanks very much for your invaluable help in this time of great distress for me! I am now back up to date with the latest episodes. I used Mediafire to get some of the recent episodes back and had no problem, I can only think that I was duped by a clever advert previously which caused me to download and install software which you quite obviously don't need for downloading from the site,

As for the improved recordings from the re-broadcast ABC episodes, I feel certain there were more than the list at http://nylon.net/up/ BUt this is a great start and I really can't thank you enough. Unfortunately, I was never able to get access to ABC myself for some reason and I don't like hassling people for copies just because the sound quality is a little better. Having said that, even if I had I would have just lost most of them....

While I am on the subject, I wonder, did ABC ever get as far as episodes such as 0412 "Bags" and 0414 "Biscuits In Bed" which I have NEVER had a copy od that was actually listenable to?

To anyone reading this, Let me give you this word of warning about back-ups.... I edit down many of my episode copies, partly to save space but mainly because, although sometimes very interesting, I don't want to hear a couple of minutes of news before the JAM show starts and, indeed, in most of my copies I had edited out the initial welcomes and final 'credits' off each episode. I never posted any of these because many of the 'purists' frown on this type of file 'adulteration' and also the more versions of an episode floating about the net the more confusing it can be with different file naming conventions etc etc. Anyway the point is, all that careful editing I did to pack more laughs per minute into my JAM listening has been lost forever and I'm not sure I have the heart to put that amount of effort in again which must have amounted to 100s of hours over the years. I always kept the originals, and most odf those were backed-up adequately (on CD), but all my personal effort has been lost. So the moral is, when you truly value your data ... DON'T SKIMP ON YOUR BACKUP and if your back-up is automated (as i thought mine was, only backing up any file that had changed) check it is still working from time to time!

Once again, thanks to everyone who helped me get this collection together in the first place (I started in 2003 when it was MUCH harder to find episodes before this group came along) and a special thanks to Paul and Mark for their response to my S.O.S. I listen to Just a Minute episodes just about every day of my life and find it almost impossible to go to sleep without one on in the background. A thousand thank yous.

Dave (Oz)

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