R
Richard Heathfield
I had a narrow escape this morning.
For about an hour, I was under the ghastly impression that I had lost
several ***years*** of work to a machine failure. For the majority of that
work, I had no backups whatsoever.
For the last few weeks I've occasionally had a little niggling thought -
"backing up would be a good idea at some point" - but I never actually got
around to it.
Fortunately, a little gefingerpoken recovered the box.
I have spent the afternoon backing up onto as many different media as I can
find!
Those of you who are bright enough to back up regularly can chortle happily
at my panic, of course.
But for those of you who, like me, keep forgetting about the last disaster
and keep thinking "well, obviously there won't be a disaster *today*, so I
can put off backing up until *tomorrow*..." - think again!
I know it's completely OT, but if I can guilt even one person into backing
up before it's too late...
For about an hour, I was under the ghastly impression that I had lost
several ***years*** of work to a machine failure. For the majority of that
work, I had no backups whatsoever.
For the last few weeks I've occasionally had a little niggling thought -
"backing up would be a good idea at some point" - but I never actually got
around to it.
Fortunately, a little gefingerpoken recovered the box.
I have spent the afternoon backing up onto as many different media as I can
find!
Those of you who are bright enough to back up regularly can chortle happily
at my panic, of course.
But for those of you who, like me, keep forgetting about the last disaster
and keep thinking "well, obviously there won't be a disaster *today*, so I
can put off backing up until *tomorrow*..." - think again!
I know it's completely OT, but if I can guilt even one person into backing
up before it's too late...