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How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently. ⇒

   25 May 2006, evening time

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  1. I wonder how common hard drive failures are. I really should get around to backing up all my photos and movies. I think I read somewhere that the Western digital hard drive I have in the iMac doesn’t last too long

  2. It’s not only mechanical hard drive failures that are a concern.
    Overheating can blow the circuit board, shock & vibration can do damage, and probably the most common problem—on unprotected and recklessly used Windows machines—viruses.
    I think I’ve done data recovery for myself and friends for all of those reasons at one time or another.

  3. I’ve actually erased a back up, because I thought I didn’t need it anymore, only to realize a week or two later that I don’t have any of the stuff that was backed up on my computer. So being a dumb ass is also a good reason to be vigilant with backing stuff up.

    (You don’t know how depressing it is losing all the work you did during University. I was lucky Patrick still had our Compilers code, and Ryan still had our OS code, but I lost all sorts of other stuff.)

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