A Reminder from me to Back up Today
Some of you may have noticed my lack of posts in the past few days. I've been under a bit of stress. I was so sick over it I could not eat for the longest time.
My very first computer that I got about 1998 crashed on Wednesday. I knew it was going to do it sometime soon and was prepared for it. We had decided not to replace it and had gotten laptops for everyone at Christmas (the only thing we got for Christmas and the boys helped pay for their own).
I had my nightly backup running too, so I was all prepared, or so I thought.
To my dismay, we found that someone had unplugged the EHD on November 8th and so I have lost all of the files I put on that desktop for the last three months, including all of those hours I spent scanning old photos...at least 30 hours worth. I'm not sure what else was lost as I cannot remember. I guess in time I will learn. I know it was a few layouts and maybe a few photos, as well as recent kit purchases and a few tutorials. It wasn't much more than that as the harddrive was full and I had been trying to make room for scanning and not putting much onto it.
Anyway, it did make me sick with stress in my stomach and I could not sleep for an entire night.
I paid my computer repair guy to look into it and he reported back that the hard drive was deader than dead.
So, now I am trying to move forward. I have to set up a new system as now I don't have a network. I have to mesh my personal e-mails with my business e-mails. I have to get my phone syncing with my calendar again. I have to set up a new system for a family calendar. I have to figure out how to make my printer be wireless (I've tried and been unsuccessful so far). I have to create all those Outlook rules to sort the zillions of genealogy e-mails that come in from Rootsweb lists. I have to install software on my laptop that was only on my desktop. I got more RAM to handle all of this and installed it. I have to figure out how to make my old camcorder work with Vista.
I wasn't ready for all of this, but I guess it is all in God's timing.
I laid there all night long the other night talking to God, asking Him what he was trying to teach me through all this. I felt I got some thoughts that might be answers. He may be teaching me that all these old photos I want to scan really are not that important. He may be teaching me about my relationship with my Mom. He may be teaching me that He is protecting me as it could have been a much longer time before I noticed the EHD unplugged and He could have saved me from further loss by having this happen so soon.
I'm sure all of the readers here have gone through similar computer stress at one time or another...or even its horrible related stress of car problems.
It's time to pick myself back up, get reset up, and move on.
Oh, but everyone should go make sure their backup system is working NOW!
My very first computer that I got about 1998 crashed on Wednesday. I knew it was going to do it sometime soon and was prepared for it. We had decided not to replace it and had gotten laptops for everyone at Christmas (the only thing we got for Christmas and the boys helped pay for their own).
I had my nightly backup running too, so I was all prepared, or so I thought.
To my dismay, we found that someone had unplugged the EHD on November 8th and so I have lost all of the files I put on that desktop for the last three months, including all of those hours I spent scanning old photos...at least 30 hours worth. I'm not sure what else was lost as I cannot remember. I guess in time I will learn. I know it was a few layouts and maybe a few photos, as well as recent kit purchases and a few tutorials. It wasn't much more than that as the harddrive was full and I had been trying to make room for scanning and not putting much onto it.
Anyway, it did make me sick with stress in my stomach and I could not sleep for an entire night.
I paid my computer repair guy to look into it and he reported back that the hard drive was deader than dead.
So, now I am trying to move forward. I have to set up a new system as now I don't have a network. I have to mesh my personal e-mails with my business e-mails. I have to get my phone syncing with my calendar again. I have to set up a new system for a family calendar. I have to figure out how to make my printer be wireless (I've tried and been unsuccessful so far). I have to create all those Outlook rules to sort the zillions of genealogy e-mails that come in from Rootsweb lists. I have to install software on my laptop that was only on my desktop. I got more RAM to handle all of this and installed it. I have to figure out how to make my old camcorder work with Vista.
I wasn't ready for all of this, but I guess it is all in God's timing.
I laid there all night long the other night talking to God, asking Him what he was trying to teach me through all this. I felt I got some thoughts that might be answers. He may be teaching me that all these old photos I want to scan really are not that important. He may be teaching me about my relationship with my Mom. He may be teaching me that He is protecting me as it could have been a much longer time before I noticed the EHD unplugged and He could have saved me from further loss by having this happen so soon.
I'm sure all of the readers here have gone through similar computer stress at one time or another...or even its horrible related stress of car problems.
It's time to pick myself back up, get reset up, and move on.
Oh, but everyone should go make sure their backup system is working NOW!
7 comments:
I'm so sorry you have been having computer problems. While I love my computer, it can be a pain, when it's not working right. I hope you didn't loose anything you can't replace, the time you lost is bad enough, but to lose something like photos that you can't take again, would really hurt.
Ug, I so fell your pain! I still feel a little sick when I think about my drive crashing and it has been over a year. It is just like someone punching you in the stomach, every time you think about it.
What I did for awhile was keep everything on my EHD and keep a copy on my computer. Unfortunately, my stuff has recently gotten too big to keep a copy of on my HD. Now I'm looking to pick up another EHD to use as a back up. I also need to burn a bunch of pages since I did a ton recently
Oh major BUMMERS! Not much I can say but I am sorry and send you a hug :)
So sorry for all the stress...I know I am not a happy camper when I have computer issues. Thanks for the reminder to check that the EHD is actually running and backing up as it should. I think I will try to make this part of at least a weekly routine.
I am so sorry to hear you had this mishap. Its not the end of the world, but it sure fells like it I'm sure. Sounds like you have the right mind set to go forward. Good Luck! :)
I know exactly what you are going through. Mine crashed deader than dead a couple of weeks ago, and I'm trying to pick up the pieces. it will take forever, but that's okay.
I am going to have to get a new computer along with fixing this whole mess. I dealt with my anger (mostly at myself - but I had to drop some agony on my computer tech. We've managed to get back quite a few of my files, but mostly what was gone was the last several months worth of work.
A lesson learned the hard way. So hang in there, and if I can be of any help, just let me know.
Hugs, Edna B.
I can identify, even though I don't do the quantity of computer work that you do...
Two years ago I had a hard drive die, and with it went all our photos from a trip to Zion National Park.
This past December I had another hard drive die. Even tho I had a back-up, it was still an incredible sense of loss!
My prayers are with you.
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