A Cautionary Tale

So, Saturday morning, my Mac G5 tower decided to crash.

Some of you may remember the Great Crash of 2006. I lost nearly everything. I had some stuff backed up, but not as much as I should have. Fortunately, I can be taught (on occasion) and I do back up constantly now. In fact, I had just backed up all my important files an hour before the crash, so I was safe.

But, I decided this was the bat through my window that I needed, and I bit the bullet and bought the new computer I've had my eye on. I was able to save and restore my old tower (For those techies in the audience, the directory got corrupted and there were overlapping files. I don't know why, but it was actually fairly simple to restore once I got the right equipment.) and pull all the files off of it. My client files were preserved in my backup. Things like the last couple of weeks of e-mails, my iTunes music library, that's the stuff I was able to rescue.

So, let this be a lesson to you all: Backup, backup, backup. I run three hard drives on a backup routine, and store one of them offsite just to be safe. I'd fallen a little bit out of that pattern, but not enough to hurt me. This time.

The new computer, by the way, is a screamin' piece of Apple hardware excellence. I've mentioned before that I name all my computers so I can see them on my internal network. I get cute and do themes and cartoon characters. I had Jessica Rabbit and Krusty and Faith the Vampire Slayer and when that was rebuilt, it became Denny Crane. In honor of the slick-as-can-be wafer thin gray and white keyboard on this one, I've named it after the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington.

Not that you actually care, just sharin'.