Tom Hapgood

Woe unto you, non-hard drive backers-up

July 11, 2008 on 1:06 pm | In Announcement, Musing, Tools | 3 Comments

Woe unto you who do not back up your hard drive, for your time is soon at hand. Back up even the lowliest of your files, lest ye be smitten with the scourge of magnetic emptiness and despair. Replicate your songs, your missives, your graven images and your magical moving graven images, for all hard drives become subject to ruin. Sackcloth and ashes will be your master as your cursings signify your miserable and fallen state of file-lessness, much like Job of old. If only you would listen to and read from the words of the great users manual you would come to understand that the life of the hard drive is brief, indeed around three to five man years, and that all drives will surely give up the ghost. I testify unto you of these truths so that you may know wisdom and live with joy and rejoicing in your archival state.

PS – My experience amounted to a quick trip over to Best Buy, a drive swap, a complete Time Machine restore, and back in business. I was imagining what it would have been like to lose all of our pictures and music, not to mention my projects.