Back-up. Do it!

The other day I bought a new hard drive to back-up my external hard drive. I was having some issues with my back-up, the one with all of my Day 7 photos, and figured I should fix that. Btw, I don’t store photos on my laptop, just on my hard drive. So, a lot of photos all in one place. Definitely need to back it up…

Select drive. The new drive. Format. MS-DOS for Mac and PC use. Erase. Are you sure you want to erase? Yes. Erase. Complete. 

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Wait. 

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Wait. How come my new hard drive is still not formatted? 

OH, because I erased the wrong hard drive. 

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Long story short, I downloaded some data recovery software and got it all back. It was a pretty painful experience, and ironic because I work at the laptop help desk where we tell people to back up their data all the time. Even more ironic is that it happened while I was trying to back-up. I wanted to pull all of my hairs out after it happened. It didn’t help that my parents wanted to see a movie after, so we saw We Bought a Zoo, where I was so distracted before the movie. 

Moral of the story - back-up. And then back-up to another place. And then back-up to a 3rd place. 

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  1. waiaka reblogged this from shsueh and added:
    service(not exaggerating) or losing precious pics from 6th-college senior year
  2. waiaka said: do what I say, not what I do.
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