PSA: Back that shit UP!
Since I'm a nice geek, this is a reminder and an open offer to all of my computer user friends out there who haven't backed up their important data lately. Time to BACK UP. You may think that your spiffy new computer will be just fine and that a crash will never happen to you, but you're so, so wrong (yet awfully beautiful, I must say).
Recently, a person I work with had the hard drive on his laptop fail. He's a copywriter, and for the last two years he blissfully created hundreds and hundreds of Microsoft Word and Final Draft documents. Not only that, he kept a bunch of his personal photos and mp3 music on the computer as well. And he never backed ANY of it up. He lost every last byte of it. 70+ gigabytes of stuff. He looked like he was going to cry when we told him it was gone. Don't let this happen to you!
Okay, that was the cheesy nagging reminder part. Here's the offer. If you've never backed up your files and would like a little help in getting into a good backup habit, send me an email and I will personally (and privately - no public humiliation) do my best to help you get set up with an easy, reliable backup system.
Recently, a person I work with had the hard drive on his laptop fail. He's a copywriter, and for the last two years he blissfully created hundreds and hundreds of Microsoft Word and Final Draft documents. Not only that, he kept a bunch of his personal photos and mp3 music on the computer as well. And he never backed ANY of it up. He lost every last byte of it. 70+ gigabytes of stuff. He looked like he was going to cry when we told him it was gone. Don't let this happen to you!
Okay, that was the cheesy nagging reminder part. Here's the offer. If you've never backed up your files and would like a little help in getting into a good backup habit, send me an email and I will personally (and privately - no public humiliation) do my best to help you get set up with an easy, reliable backup system.
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posted by steve at 6:21 PM
12 Comments:
Thank you for the PSA! As a person for whom this advice is a wee bit too late, do you have a suggestion on a reasonably priced data recovery place . . . one with a "clean room" for taking apart the hard drive?
At work, we use a company called DriveSavers. They're not cheap (none of them are), but they do good work and have quick turnaround. Good customer service, too.
I'll publicly say that I'll take you up on your offer. I even have an external drive to which I've tried to back up my data. Its so easy Jane tried to explain the process to me but I just wasn't understanding.
Damn, Steve! How you be so nice?
My computer is backed up, thanks to my IT boyfriend, but what if the copywriter had written everything on Google Docs? WHAT THEN?
OK, that was nonsensical. I just wanted to prove my love for GDocs. The end.
J: Since you're so conveniently located, invite me over sometime and I'll be happy to set all that up for you, shouldn't take more than 15 minutes or so.
mair: I love the Google Docs too. Such a great idea, and it's obviously the way of the future.
At some point, I probably will ask for your help in this regard; however, it is also likely that I will spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out how I can use these two photos of you in a post.
Thanks, Steve, I'll check out the DataSavers!
flurry: I am seriously, honestly, happy to help with the backup thing. And regarding the photos, coming from you, I would expect no less. Bring it!
Coincidentally, the HD on my work machine was on the rapid decline the past two days. Didn't lose any data as I keep it on the server.
Always keep my data on the server as the server is backed up and I run the server. Bad form for sysadmin to not use sysadmin's server.
Machine was replaced today and I'll put my own build on it next Mon. New machine came too late to load it.
Old 17" PPC iMac (the same one that I had when you left). now its a 20" PPC iMac. Faster CPU & larger HD. And it has an iSight in it. Yay!
So what does it say about your office's network when the our individual user drives on the server crash though our actual machines are just fine?
I'd say either they've got the server set up in some oddball way, or they're bullshitting you to cover up for incompetence.
Little bit of Column A, a little bit of Column B...
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