Backup Blues
By Madeleine Begun Kane
They told me to back up my drive,
Which has crashed—it’s no longer alive.
Had I heeded their warning,
I wouldn’t be mourning
My data, which didn’t survive.
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February 21st, 2007 at 9:36 am
Alas, back in December I too suffered a hard drive crash. Luckily the service folks were able to glean most of my useful files from my hardrive and transfer them to a DVD. Some were corrupted, but at that point I was happy that I could salvage anything.
I now have an external hard drive specifically for backing up important files, which I still haven’t done.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Wow! We never learn our lessons, do we?
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
been there. Lol.
February 23rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Sorry to hear that.
February 24th, 2007 at 12:11 am
That bytes.
February 24th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Ha!
March 1st, 2007 at 8:21 am
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March 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 am
The local Dell tech person who came to fix my computer at work said he knew of a couple of small businesses that had to close after they lost all their files.
March 2nd, 2007 at 6:23 pm
This is the saddest post I have ever read. Where’s my prozac.
March 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
The Carnival of the Mundane
Was the main reason for why I came
To check out your blog
And a comment to log
So sorry your ‘puter was a pain!
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Thanks for stopping by and posting that lim, Nance!
MW, I’ve got first dibs on the prozac.
Plain Jane, I’m not surprised to hear that!
March 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
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July 15th, 2007 at 6:00 am
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October 8th, 2007 at 12:37 am
It’s good to see a sense of humor here. That’s something that’s tough to come by when you lose a hard drive! Losing more than a few myself I’ve also made the mistake of not backing up or burning important data and have ended up losing everything. Actually having any of your computer storage devices will ruin your day so it’s cool to see a fun twist on this oh to familiar scenario.
Actually the last time I had a drive fail it was one of my enclosures which got really hot and then fried the drive. It seems I’m always replacing something when it comes to storage related hardware. When I lost that last enclosure I felt like tossing the entire computer out of my window but my buddy was there and kept my calm. Reading something like this makes it seem even more absurd that I or anyone would get that angry!