Good advice. I have a Sync account that is mostly for hang gliding folks to send video for my amateurish movies. An little upgrade and there can be room for my backups too.
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Off topic but many friends of cats posting so: A relative is a veterinarian. I once asked about the most expensive thing he had done. A cat is diagnosed with serious kidney trouble. Euthanasia recommended. The folks with the cat were rich, loved him very much, and asked about a transplant! Stunned but intrigued, [redacted] and the other vets at the clinic determined that it could be done. They began tissue testing cats at the pound and made the folks agree to adopt the soon to be one kidneyed donor. A match was found and more than $30,000 later the folks had two cats.
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I make monthly backups to an external USB drive which I physically store outside of my home in case it burns down. I also have two USB drives, one SSD and one hard disk. The hard disk is more reliable, I believe, since SSDās are prone to losing data.
My data means everything to me. Itās my whole life. It basically makes me who I am.
I simply cannot understand other people, especially those involved in digital content creation, not realizing this. How many people lose all their (digital) photos because their hard drive crashes and they have no backup? I believe lots of memories are being lost in this manner.
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That is amazing! Thanks for sharing. My costliest was Nikoās bladder stone with two nighttime weekend emergency visits, but it only totalled around three grand. āOnlyāā¦
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I tjink that is how I should be thinking. I come from a very relaxed, Scandinavian culture, so being constructively paranoid is against my genetic design, but after thisā¦ Christ, if I lost all my photos and home videosā¦ They are duplicated on two drives, both in my house. Not enough, not any more!
yeah, those emergency vet bills can get youā¦ Kyoufuu had his stroke at 5.30pm on a Friday, after I got home from work (& before his dinner). With the expected vet bill increases. 
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Vet healthcare is why I am always broke and behind on house repairs. Love is not chesp. My heart goes out to you and poor Kyufuu.
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I am also doing crucial backups every year. If I hit certain milestones (the project is done and I close the topic) then I do also a backup.
Typically, I have about a few HDs around, and I fill them up in a rotating manner. Writing on a label the date and the content that got updated.
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Also to note that I donāt trust SSDs yet, because when an SSD fails it fails completely. With HDs somehow is a bit more manageable.
Worst case scenario is that you will have to transplant the platter into an identical drive and still have hope get your data back. But indeed, you wonāt bet all your horses on only one HD, you might have a double backup.
At some point in the future, I do plan to throw a lot of money on creating a proper backup system in my home and call it a day, I just like things to work out of the box without any micromanagement.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=create+your+own+data+backup+nas
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We had a cat have a stroke a few years back, after a couple weeks of only turning left in tight little circles, he started to regain more of his skills. Heās still a little off, but heās a cat, not a surgeon, so some cognitive eccentricities are just fun personality quirks. Cats are surprisingly adept at recovering from brain damage.
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at 19, the vet did not think he would pull through it. if he was younger, aye, mebbe. one of our cats, the youngest, we took in after i ran over him leaving the driveway (i did not know there was a feral kitten hiding under my wheel, obviously)ā¦ thought for sure i was going to have to deal with a dead kitten, but he was still alive, and able to zip around the yard using just his front legs before we captured him. took him to the vet when they opened, figuring massive internal damage, broken spine, etcā¦ i drive a very heavy 4x4 suv. nope, vet couldnāt find anything physically wrong, and guessed a bruised spinal cord. a week or so later, he was up and running around the house, and is still doing quite well. 
mebbe only 8 lives left though. hehe. we think he did it on purpose for all the free food inside. 
so yeah, cats do have a lot of rebound potential. but this one was kyoufuuās timeā¦ he was so miserable looking at us and not being able to move anything but his eyes and very shallow breathing.
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At least you had your cat for 19 years, my family had a cat at one point whose life expectancy was much shorter simply because she was mostly an outdoor cat (though she started spending a lot more time indoors later in life). She was mostly outside because the way we got her was as a āfreeā pet that walked into our garage as a stray. Fortunately, she quickly developed a good relationship with the beagle we had at the time, they loved to play with each other with the cat sometimes being the one to initiate a session.
That also was the only time we had a cat, when she had to be put down nearly 10 years ago, we were then back to being dog people (we were on our third beagle by then and he is still with us).
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They are resilient, but not immortal, sadly. Had many here survive insane things. But also many who did not, or relapsed. One now is blosted from a weak liver or heart and may not make it, exactly line his brother, althoyfh he has survived multiple minor episodes of the kind. I have found some as good as dead and won them back. But they all had rough starts and I am fighting hard to keep them all alive. And I will fail. All I can do is give them as many happy days as possibleā¦
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19 is amazing. Sadly, mine never ladt that long. Some are still going strong on 6 or 7, but others have been lost much earlier. I do what I can for as many as I can, but this world is NOT kind to the marginalized, be they human or animalsā¦
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aye, iāve been blessed in that regardsā¦ all of our cats are rescues, and āmutts.ā our oldest is now 22 (she was born in the spring of 2001), we lost her sibling at 15 or 16. we have had to deal with some rough starts, usually severe URIs with newly adopted kittensā¦ lots of time spent with the shower running as a steam room. weāre at the point now though, where if we add another cat, weāre probably only going to adopt seniors ā¦ after all, thereās only so many cats we can foist off on our daughter-unit when itās .our. time.
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PLENTY of senior cats need a loving home. I say go for it <3
On the other topic of the thread, reconstruction has begun on, well, EVERYTHING. Until I get a new work horse, I can only reconstruct writing, nut in about two weeks I should(!) be able to restart the coding and animation side of it. The website (embassyoftime.com EDIT: There is nothing there yet) will become a rough work-in-progress journal for bow, hopefully with some more impressive stuff by the end of the year.
Not sure why I go into all that detail about something that is not there yet. Maybeā¦ watch this space? Dramatic tension? Not sure. Comments and suggestions are more than welcome!
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Oh, hey, the website is up again, after the new hardware allowed proper fidgeting with it! It looksā¦ well, itās up, letās just keep it at that.
embassyoftime.com
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I think that, too often we end up spending too much time about fixing mistakes (cleaning up and polishing a mess) of our previously created works. But how often we spend the 100% of time, on 100% creative mode?
That being said, starting from scratch has a unique charm to it, but we are very scared and logical to do it. 
The point in everything, if you have the energy and motivation, then you are unstoppable.
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