{"id":298,"date":"2009-06-14T22:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/282-uh-oh\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:20:43","slug":"282-uh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/282-uh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"#282 Uh-oh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/282-uh-oh\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Uh-oh was right!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I hopped on our data crunching computer &#8211; a Mac that processes large files. I heard sounds similar to a hamster running on a squeaky hamster wheel or, ahem, a failing hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>We lost the hard drive, but not important data. Thank goodness.<\/p>\n<p>While our archive system is not perfect, we have backed up data in different ways over the years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>film<\/li>\n<li>CDs and DVDs<\/li>\n<li>LaCie external hard drives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We now back up info:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiebetech.com\/home.php\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiebetech.com%2Fhome.php','Wibetech')\" title=\"Wibetech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiebetech system<\/a> incorporating Seagate hard drives and<\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/what-is-macosx\/time-machine.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fmacosx%2Fwhat-is-macosx%2Ftime-machine.html','Apple+Time+Machine')\" title=\"Apple Time Machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time Machine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I called Pat Castel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promac911.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.promac911.com','ProMac911')\" title=\"ProMac911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ProMac911.com<\/a> for help. Thanks Pat. He made recovery and new hard drive installation quicker and easier. We came through ok. Phew!<\/p>\n<p>Please, please back up your systems! How do YOU keep your data safe?<\/p>\n<p>H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Uh-oh was right! Last week I hopped on our data crunching computer &#8211; a Mac that processes large files. I heard sounds similar to a hamster running on a squeaky hamster wheel or, ahem, a failing hard drive. We <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/14\/282-uh-oh\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2F282-uh-oh%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}