You may have heard me use that phrase in a few other blog posts.
Wonder what kind of fucked-up chain of events could spawn THAT moniker? Well-
- My wife’s main desktop computer died. Complete loss, no files recovered.
- MY main desktop computer died. 100% loss. Of the two hard drives, one was completely toasted. The other was mostly empty because I had just copied its contents to the FIRST hard drive.
- The old laptop that my wife started using when her main machine died… died.
- Hey, that’s a lot of files gone. Good thing most of that shit was backed up on my networked hard drive. Well, guess what died next?
- One of my laptops got stolen. Obviously a 100% data loss.
All in one year. And that year ain’t even over yet.
Yeah, I had backups. Hell, I had backups of the backups in some cases. But what happens when FOUR pieces of hardware die (or vanish) in one year? What THEN? I can cry about it, or I can make up funny names for it and learn from the whole thing. What did I learn?
No matter how many precautions you take, when the world (or God) wants to take something away from you… it’s fucking gone.
That’s horrible … for some strange reason I have NEVER had a harddrive die on me - if my current 500 Gb harddrive died tonight, I would cry like a little baby for months. *knocks on wood* !
Comment by udgang99 — December 2, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
What could you possibly have that backed up on?
…you DO have it backed up, right?
…not that it matters, as this post here clearly demonstrates.
Comment by DarkIcon — December 2, 2007 @ 9:53 pm
“back ups” … hrmmm, that’s for girls! ;)
Comment by udgang99 — December 3, 2007 @ 4:34 am