HA! HA!
Whoa, Nelly. Not so fast. Three days ago our fair city had some kind of a power failure that lasted a mere 10 seconds, just long enough to require resetting all clocks and.... KILL MY EXTERNAL DRIVE! All of my storage, GONE! Corrupt files! Unreadable! Does not recognize driver!
SFDPH!!!
Off to the land of technology geeks at our favorite computer hospital. One of the first questions the young kid asks is "Do you have a backup drive for your backup drive?" What the hell? Are you kidding me?
Twenty-four hours later I am back home. Data has been recovered and all of your smiling faces are back safely in their own little files. This little laptop now has the ultimate accessories of TWO EXTERNAL DRIVES plus a fancy new UPS plug-in strip (Uninterrupted Power Source) that will hopefully prevent any further crashes during power spikes or brown outs.
The techno guys couldn't understand why I wanted the old fried hard drive. Obviously they have never experienced the healing powers of catharsis.
I feel better now. And the photos have been printed.
$.87
7 comments:
It's just good sense to backup your backup.
But seriously...that's lousy bad luck
Phoebe! You can't have Ross and Joey!
bummer. Although, there are a few pictures in that back up that I wouldn't be sorry to see go.
I guess I do still need to keep all those cds I copied pictures to. I hope they'll be safe enough in my fire safe.
Backup of the backup? I'm hosed if anything ever goes wrong!
*Knock on wood*
Catharsis is one of my favorite friends especially when in relation to technology. Now, where did i put my hockey stick?
Nice picture! ;)
That IS a recommended way of destroying old hard drives to prevent sensitive data from being recovered by the criminal types.
What's sick is about 20 years ago a major bank (who WILL sue if you malign them) had a mainframe computer hard drive (made by a major computer company I won't name) fail catastrophically, wiping out transaction records that cost the bank $37,000,000. It seems they felt they didn't need to make backups.
Who needs hammers & hockey sticks? ;)
-Mike H.
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