Have you backed up recently? Cautionary tale

Ms Naughty · 2005-03-02, 05:50 AM

This morning my hard drive blew up. I mean, literally, with smoke, and electrical smell and everything. |shocking|

As the god of dramatic irony would have it, this disaster happened when my hubby was trying to ghost/backup my hard drive, as I hadn't backed anything up for 2 months.

And for a while there, it looked like the last backup we had was actually June 04 rather than December 04.

As you can guess, today has been a very stressful day with a lot of wasted time and productivity.

Luckily, we were able to patch new circuitry onto the original hard drive to replace the fried stuff, and our Frankenstein experiment worked. So I'm only down one day, rather than several days trying to relocate invoices, download html files, redo spreadsheets etc. I would never have got my personal digital photos or recently updated tax spreadsheets back if the drive had been lost.

So, please learn from my disaster and back everything up RIGHT NOW.

I know there's been threads like this before but it can't hurt to give people a reminder.

Your hard drive WILL fail, it's just a matter of when.

2005-03-02, 05:50 AM	#1
Ms Naughty old enough to be Grandma Scrotum Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,408	Have you backed up recently? Cautionary tale This morning my hard drive blew up. I mean, literally, with smoke, and electrical smell and everything. \|shocking\| As the god of dramatic irony would have it, this disaster happened when my hubby was trying to ghost/backup my hard drive, as I hadn't backed anything up for 2 months. And for a while there, it looked like the last backup we had was actually June 04 rather than December 04. As you can guess, today has been a very stressful day with a lot of wasted time and productivity. Luckily, we were able to patch new circuitry onto the original hard drive to replace the fried stuff, and our Frankenstein experiment worked. So I'm only down one day, rather than several days trying to relocate invoices, download html files, redo spreadsheets etc. I would never have got my personal digital photos or recently updated tax spreadsheets back if the drive had been lost. So, please learn from my disaster and back everything up RIGHT NOW. I know there's been threads like this before but it can't hurt to give people a reminder. Your hard drive WILL fail, it's just a matter of when. __________________ Promote Bright Desire