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I discussed with an Apple support representative last Friday how my laptop was not fully backed up when I sent it off for repair. When a computer goes from 100% working to 100% not working with no intervening stages, it's hard to pick the right moment to do a backup...
From her tone, I gathered that the merest hint of hard disk problems would have the technician hoik out my hard disk and dump it -before- finding out whether some other component might be at fault. So it looked almost certain my laptop would come back blank.
So I had a long weekend to contemplate just how many files were not backed up on my laptop. It's quite a grim thought. I have most of my email and digital photos backed up, but there are a few weeks not saved.
My weblog lives on my server, so it's fine. However the little rsync script which nicely publishes it for me lives only on my laptop. Doh!
Living without my laptop for a while, I realised my email filters in "Mail" are also completely un-backed-up. Doh!
Browser bookmarks - Doh!
Palm Desktop - Doh!
Lots of brief moments of horror like this. Oh what fun.
So it's with great relief I can report my laptop came back fully repaired,
and yet with all my files. Flextronics of Memphis, Tennessee, you rock!
Applecare? JUST DO IT, it's worth it.
posted at: 23:09 | path: /rescue | permanent link to this entry