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September 20, 2005
No Plan B
It seems I'm not alone when it comes to poor practices having to do with hard drive back-ups.
A new survey from Maxtor and Harris Interactive finds that one-third of Americans don't back up their hard drive data all and three quarters who do, don't do it very often. Why? "Not sure how to do it or believe it's too technical."
As I wrote in an earlier post, a hard drive crash recently wiped out my hard drive and with it, a lot of important data. Two weeks later, the drive is still in surgery and we're praying for some sort of data recovery. Bless me father, for my last backup was 10 months ago.
I'll no longer be a backup laggard; after some research, I bought a Buffalo Technologies 1 terabyte RAID array backup. Love it. It couldn't have been easier to set up; it took about 10 minutes to unpack and begin its back-up work. This vault-looking machine automatically backs up everything on my network every night. And 24/7 support is pretty remarkable.
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I just added a weekly event on my calendar. Now, at lunchtime on Thursdays, the notifier will pop-up with "Back-Up HD!"
Good idea. Here are two crazy things about my crashed hard drive saga:
1. The tech who first responded to my hard drive crash said he'd never seen the brand of my drive (in my Dell desktop) crash before.
2. The company to whom we sent the drive to recover the data said it could not recover a single file from it. "This has never happened to us before," they said.
So I got that going for me...
