ARE YOU BACKING UP YOUR DATA?
May 23rd, 2010If your answer is no, learn vicariously. Stevel spent some 25-plus hours over the last two weeks retrieving data from my fouled-up hard drive, and then delicately performing a hard-drive transplant on my iMac, and then getting everything restored for me. If you’re not married to Steve, you should find some other way to make sure your photos and documents and videos are safe. (Even if you ARE married to Steve, you have now found some other way, because he didn’t deserve to spend all that time making sure, as he put it, “Yes, you deserve to learn that lesson. But losing the photos of the first two years of your kid’s life is just too hard a way to learn it.”) I’m now using Mozy. Stevel uses Time Capsule.
May 24th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Back-up, back-up. And do not leave your back-up just anywhere. It needs to be seperate from your computer. A fireproof lock-box is best. Keep it near your front door for emergency exit of valuables. Baby, you, cats (they will run like heck on their own)and the lock box last.
And you need to learn to back-up at least weekly.
May 25th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Very timely. I just realized I haven’t backed up since March 8th. I shall let Time Capsule do its thing while I sleep the night away. (At least I hope I’m going to sleep the night away…)