Aw
By adamg - Wed, 04/09/2008 - 12:08pm.
Jade Sylvan reports:
Someone broke into my apartment yesterday and stole my computer, my phone, my camera, and my whiskey. Pretty much all I had, they took. The worst part is I had about 25 or so unbacked-up pages of my new novel on there. Pages I just hadn't gotten around to backing up yet. They were really good. ...
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Sorry to hear about the
Sorry to hear about the computer, camera, etc. Twenty-five pages of writing not backed up? Tough tittie - that's your own fault.
Wow, tough crowd
Yeah, I have a couple of years' worth of photos I haven't backed up yet. If I suddenly found an exciting new way to destroy my laptop's hard drive (let's see, I've already tried pouring orange juice into it, dropping it, having my wife kick it off the bed, just touching the damn thing ...), yes, I would realize how truly stupid I was. But I'd still feel bad about it. The poor woman just had her apartment broken into, even if she should have had those pages backed up, can't we show her some sympathy?
Also...
if someone breaks into your apartment and steals your computer, they might very well steal your backup disks, too.
They still make disks?
Come on Ron, most people back things up onto teh intarwebs (easy way for non-huge files like writing is to e-mail it to yourself every couple hours, type it in a google doc, post it to UH every 15 minutes), or on flash drives, or on their phone, or whatnot. If people are backing up onto disks, they don't deserve to have the data in the first place. Also, get offa my lawn.
Hard Disk?
Plenty of people back up to their hard disk drive... which is colloquially known as a hard drive. :D
I back up to DVDs
which are definitely still made, and are very popular.
And...
do you keep the DVDs in the same place as the puter, so they can get stolen or burned up or blown away or washed away all together?
Learning the Hard Way
Fear of theft was one reason that I was totally paranoid about nightly backups of my dissertation. I snagged a surplus desktop at school, wiped out the virus and spyware infestations, and set it up in my office to serve as a distant repository for my files. As I got closer to completion, I was increasingly anxious and backed up the work on my laptop over the web several times a day.
A couple of people I knew set up backup systems after one of our fellows lost a lot of his data in a house fire. Others rescued a lot of data when there was an office fire and the sprinkers triggered.
At least the household staff didn't start the morning's fire with it ...
Of course it is. I never
Of course it is. I never said it wasn't. It still sucks. You're a jerk.
Two words.... Offsite
Two words....
Offsite backups!