BACKUPS ...
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 5:46 pm
I rarely worry about the little family films and interview movies I make. They routinely get backed up to a separate hard drive and either sent to an online host or burned to DVD/BluRay ...
But a recent disc crash reminded me forcefully about all the other stuff on my computer that should be backed up, but is not ... or at least not often enough.
Trying to recall what documents I drafted for meetings and events then trying to recreate them is painful. What about the address list updated after the flurry of Christmas messages?
Pictures are not a great worry - many are on various cloud services anyway. Emails and website pages can be retrieved online. But in the last couple of days I have had phone calls asking for contact information which is ... er... was on my computer. Or Jan asks when did we last get the boiler serviced and I can ... er could ... easily look it up.
There is a moral here folks .... lots of our stuff is online these days but it is relatively small files that you may miss most.
Dave the dumbo!
But a recent disc crash reminded me forcefully about all the other stuff on my computer that should be backed up, but is not ... or at least not often enough.
Trying to recall what documents I drafted for meetings and events then trying to recreate them is painful. What about the address list updated after the flurry of Christmas messages?
Pictures are not a great worry - many are on various cloud services anyway. Emails and website pages can be retrieved online. But in the last couple of days I have had phone calls asking for contact information which is ... er... was on my computer. Or Jan asks when did we last get the boiler serviced and I can ... er could ... easily look it up.
There is a moral here folks .... lots of our stuff is online these days but it is relatively small files that you may miss most.
Dave the dumbo!