Could be worse, you could loose 700 + shows at the very least..
That happened to me, well sort of. I have pretty much every Pearl Jam & Vedder solo shows that there is a recording of. Which is much more common than it used to be. Anyway, I had all the shows split across 2 external hard drives. Well anyway, one day one of the drives failed. I absolutely freaked out because I started collecting my Pearl Jam shows in 1997.
I put a ton of time and work into my collection. Especially during the days where it was much much harder to get shows. The internet wasnt as big, and the connection speeds were terrible with dial up and shit. There was no bit torrent. There was some FTP sites and I got a lot of shows from a thing called the DC++ hub. Also, I used to have to do trades.
Anyway, the 500 gig drive that failed just happened to be the one that was completely full. All Pearl Jam shows. But I was lucky, I found a guy on another PJ website that said he could recover all the media on the drive. So, I bought another external hard drive and sent it to him. Sure enough, the guy was able to recover everything form the hard drive. That was probably one of the happiest days of my life.
So I learned then to ALWAYS have backups of my shows. So now I have all my shows on my main hard drive and a backup of all of them on another. I do not EVER want to go through that again. But I guess it could of have been worse. If I didnt find that guy to recover it, I really would have really been crying. Big time scare though. So, backup people!!!!
close call!
Uh, big time, I was freaking out. I got really lucky to find the person that recovered it. Usually a company online that you would see that recovers hard disks charges thousands of dollars. But those companies usually are in business to only deal with corporate end stuff and dont cater to personal hard drives and files.
Pearl Jam Shows: 1998 - 9/11 New York, NY (MSG night 2); 9/13 Hartford, CT || 2000 - 8/24 Wantagh, NY (Jones Beach 2); 8/27 Saratoga Springs; 8/29 Mansfield, MA (night 1); 8/30 Mansfield, MA (night 2) || 2003 - 4/29 Albany, NY; 5/3 State College, PA; 7/2 Mansfield (night 1); 7/6 Camden, NJ (night 2); 7/8 New York, NY (MSG night 1) || 2004 - 9/28 Boston, MA (night 1); 9/29 Boston, MA (night 2) || 2005 - 10/3 Philadelphia, PA || 2006 - 5/12 Albany, NY; 5/13 Hartford, CT; 5/24 Boston, MA (night 1); 5/25 Boston, MA (night 2); 5/27 Camden, NJ (night 1); 5/28 Camden, NJ (night 2)|| 2008 - 6/19 Camden, NJ (night 1); 6/24 New York, NY (MSG night 1); 6/25 New York, NY (MSG night 2); 6/27 Hartford, CT; 6/28 Mansfield, MA (night 1); 6/30 Mansfield, MA (night 2); 7/1 New York, NY (Beacon Theater)|| 2009 - 9/21 Seattle, WA (night 1); 9/22 Seattle, WA (night 2); 10/27 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 1); 10/28 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 2); 10/30 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 3); 10/31 Philadelphia, PA (Spectrum night 4)|| 2010 - 5/15 Hartford, CT; 5/17 Boston, MA; 5/20 New York, NY (MSG night 1); 5/21 New York, NY (MSG night 2)|| 2011 - 9/3 East Troy, WI (PJ20); 9/4 East Troy, WI (PJ20) || 2012 - 9/2 Philadelphia, PA, 9/30 Missoula, MT || 2013 - 7/19 Chicago, IL (Wrigley Field), 10/12 Buffalo, NY, 10/15 Worcester, MA (night 1), 10/16 Worcester, MA (night 2), 10/18 Brooklyn, NY (night 1), 10/19 Brooklyn, NY (night 2), 10/25 Hartford, CT || 2014 - 10/22 Denver, CO || 2015 - 9/26 New York, NY (Global Citizen Festival) || 2016 - 5/1 New York, NY (night 1), 5/2 New York, NY (night 2), 8/5 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 1), 8/7 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 2) || 2018 - 9/2 Boston, MA (Fenway Park night 1) || 2020 - 3/30 New York, NY Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
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Uh, big time, I was freaking out. I got really lucky to find the person that recovered it. Usually a company online that you would see that recovers hard disks charges thousands of dollars. But those companies usually are in business to only deal with corporate end stuff and dont cater to personal hard drives and files.
Eddie Vedder solo: 2008 - Boston night 1 & 2 || 2009 - Albany, NY night 1 & 2 || 2011 - Hartford, CT, Boston, MA
sorry for your lost. :(
can you plug a dvr to a hard drive?