It's Post Disaster Tuesday Morning 20151124

[Cleo]

I've done lots of stupid things in my life and this is right up there.

I have a 1TB RAID that has all my pictures, movies, music and a job archive along with some other junk. I also have TimeMachine backing up to a couple of drives that are connected to an AirPort Extreme. I noticed about a week or so ago that the AirPort was having issues and have been messing with it for a few weeks. Turns out that all its backups were incomplete and mostly corrupted. This weekend my RAID lost it partition map and wouldn't mount. So I was left with no backups and a corrupted RAID and corrupted backups. Spent the last two days using DiskWarrior to recover files off of the RAID plus my iPhone had all my music and pics. So happy that this time I bought the 128 gig iPhone as it had all my pics and music on it. Was able to get back all my music and pics. Lost a bunch of all the archived jobs along with all iMovie projects but I did recover a lot of the original movie files.

Replaced my 10-year-old failing AirPort Extreme and bought a new AirPort Extreme yesterday at BestBuy so paid too much but I needed it right away otherwise I would have gotten it from Amazon for a lot less money.

Turns out that nothing in my house was being backed up. Now everything has a complete backup except my most important computer and its RAID, but it is in progress and should be done by the end of today.



Going to order another 2TB drive so that I can rotate my backups and keep on off-site in case of a disaster like fire or theft.

Other than that will probably go to the gym today and leave my work computer alone so that it will finish its first backup sooner.