OK i did something stupid (nothing new here) i didn’t backup data i have never done so ever before, mainly because i have not had a hard drive die on me thanks to the modern day hard disks! But this was a blessing in disguise because it led me into a false sense of security to a place where data never disappears and as long as you don’t delete it, it will be there the next day. I tell a lie i did kind of backup data but the problem seemed to be that i only backed it up on one place, an external hard drive which subsequently was the very device that failed me. I lost my music collection, code, documents, ebooks, and other stuff that i can’t remember yet but that’s one of the horrors of losing data; you remeber what you lost when you need it and the pains starts again.
Lucky i didnt lose anything with an imminet deadline like some C code that was to be submitted the next day! But i did lose my music and ebook collection that took a while to assemble, but o well that’ll teach me. I guess i tested it’s physical endurance as i kicked it off my table (by accident i might add (don’t relax and put your feet up around hardware).
So with two stupid things done that day i decided i would backup to a file server as soon as i fix it :-S and my desktop using git so we’ll see how that works out.
And for my pain I at least earned a t-shirt from Mozy.com. Check them out for online remote backups and backthefup.net with how to get a t-shirt.
