To paraphrase pdb…
You people are backing up your damn hard drives, right?
I ask because the 160-gig Seagate in my Power Mac went tits-up today, within a few days of its fourth birthday.
Fortunately, I do actually back up my systems. But I only back up my pr0n data files, not the entire disk. So recovering from a dead drive is a bit time-consuming. Swap in a new hard drive, reinstall the OS, update the OS, reinstall all my applications, reconfigure everything, and copy all my data over from the backup drive. [grumble] hours later, I’m up and running again.
Remember, folks, there are only two kinds of hard drives: those that have failed, and those that WILL fail.
What would you suggest as the best reference on learning how to back up a hard drive? I had one crash a few years ago, and I had to go find an IT guy get my system up and going.
Comment by MauserMedic — October 3, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
You’ve reminded me that I have an old 80gb drive holding the only copies of my photography and most of my music collection. I believe its birthday to be well north of 4 years. Scary thought.
Comment by Brad — October 3, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Oh yeah, I was going to pick up one of those IDE/USB adapters and buy a hueg-like-xbox seagate hard drive for backups.
Right now all the important stuff is stored online (in a few places) and the larger stuff (like your
data, I mean, data) I can live without…Don’t forget that apple allows you one complete recovery of your itunes music. (but you gotta be a bitch about it to get it)
Comment by existingthing — October 3, 2007 @ 8:18 pm
MauserMedic, I’ll do a post on backups tomorrow. You’re obviously not the only one who’s not doing regular backups
Comment by TD — October 3, 2007 @ 11:55 pm
I only backup data because most programs I use aren’t worth backup up.
Comment by Alcibiades McZombie — October 4, 2007 @ 1:34 pm