[Is my face red or what? *vbg*]
Cobbler’s children and all that. I harp and harp and harp on keeping regular, verified backups…
So, I’d been meaning to check into why my last few backups had failed on the computer I use most for blogging, email, most internet stuff, etc.
Oops. Procrastinated juuuust a tad too long. Yup. Boot drive has “the click of death,” so I’ve got that computer benched and waiting for a new hard drive (wethe one I use the most *LOL*), new hard drive, mobo and CPU–why not? :-)). I’ll freeze the dying drive for a day or so before mirroring it off on the new one and do the mirroring as quickly as possible. Usually works.
Meanwhile, other comps that are usually tasked for other uses will take up the slack. Right now, since my Wonder Woman’s masters classes are finished for the summer, right now I’m using her nice lil Toshiba Satellite (because it offers the added advantage of being located right next to her on our fav lil loveseat :-)) to do a lil blogpost.
And back in the twc batcave, another comp has all my email accounts loaded and other pages, searches, etc. loaded.
But it will be nice to have all the blogging/email/’net searches in one place again, once all the pieces are in place for reassembly.
And yeh, it’ll be nice to put this lil episode behind me, let the embarrassment of failing to maintain full, current backups fade a bit… as long as I don’t forget the lesson and do it again (maintain all the other comps but screw up on a computer I use for my blogging, etc. *LOL*).
Well, it also moves my backburnered plans to build a dedicated backup server for our lil network up a little. *heh*
Anywho, if I can only be a good bad example, perhaps I can persuade you to make sure you backup regularly, verify the backups, and when you have errors, find out why and correct the issue before you stand to lose (some of) your data.