Back Up Your Shit!
This is less of a blog post and more of an order. You should back up your shit. Now. I mean it. Get out a CD-R, or connect to your company’s back up server, or make a shelveset or a personal branch, or do whatever it is you do to make sure you don’t lose things. Back up your shit. I mean everything. Even the stuff you just kinda keep on your desktop. Everything. Even the VMs you think you don’t care about that much. Everything. Even the work you’re doing right now that isn’t finished. In fact, especially that. Just think about how much it would suck to have to start over.
Back up your shit.
Or you’ll end up like me.
Oh dear….sounds like there was a disaster!
Our IT guru called time of death on my old hard drive at around 3 PM yesterday, but it had really been on its death bed since some indeterminate time between 6 PM Friday and 7 AM Monday. (It did enjoy a brief stay in “da coolah!” (i.e. the freezer) before its final demise.)
There seems to be an epidemic going on..
My hard drive shit a brick last tuesday and was in the ICU until Thursday when it actually died and I got a new machine.
One of our VPs also had his hard drive explode in the last few days and was asking me for files from a joint project to rebuild his shattered digital world.
I thought I may have lost my personal laptop last night too! It would have most likely sent me over the edge. But Mike brought it back to life using his magical powers. And he set up the RAID (which we had powered off like a year ago) so I could back up my shit.
I was just thinking, Jon. We both started our current jobs around the same time. Are hard drives so shitty these days as to only have a 1.75 year life span?
And this is why I love the new “time machine” software.
Out of curiosity who manufactured the drives? I’ve had really good success with my hitachi and western-digital based drives. My toshiba and maxtor ones, well, they didn’t fare as well but they did last at least 5-8 years.
Fuck if I know. I try really hard not to know what’s going on with the intricacies of hardware. I know just enough to know when something is broken, but not enough to fix it.