Comments on: My small disaster http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/ What’s he building in there? Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:26:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: thomas http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-62 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:37:38 +0000 http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-62 Yeah, I'm trying to be more hard core about backing up but it's hard when you're living out of hotel rooms. Your theory about the bump sounds plausible, but the thing that disturbs me is that the list of files that went AWOL didn't seem particularly random - it was like someone who hates me sat down at my laptop for an hour deleting all the stuff I really need! Yeah, I’m trying to be more hard core about backing up but it’s hard when you’re living out of hotel rooms. Your theory about the bump sounds plausible, but the thing that disturbs me is that the list of files that went AWOL didn’t seem particularly random - it was like someone who hates me sat down at my laptop for an hour deleting all the stuff I really need!

]]> by: Greg http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-59 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:52:01 +0000 http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-59 That Powerbook bump could have sent the HDD heads skittering across the disk platter, erasing stuff from your file allocation table. That Powerbook bump could have sent the HDD heads skittering across the disk platter, erasing stuff from your file allocation table.

]]> by: Greg http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-58 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:51:06 +0000 http://woodandwire.org/2006/03/16/the-great-email-meltdown-of-%e2%80%9906/#comment-58 The only thing that I can think of that could nuke some preferences and your media files at the same time, is a failing hard drive, so I'd work on the assumption it'll happen again. My most comforting backup strategy is to sync with a <a href="http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html" rel="nofollow">bootable clone of my hard drive</a> every day at 4am. That way if something goes TU, I can just pop in the clone disk and carry on from where I was yesterday. The only thing that I can think of that could nuke some preferences and your media files at the same time, is a failing hard drive, so I’d work on the assumption it’ll happen again.

My most comforting backup strategy is to sync with a bootable clone of my hard drive every day at 4am. That way if something goes TU, I can just pop in the clone disk and carry on from where I was yesterday.

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