Comments on: Are You Backed Up? http://www.thehomeofficeorganizer.com/are-you-backed-up/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Charlene Anderson http://www.thehomeofficeorganizer.com/are-you-backed-up/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Charlene Anderson Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:26:09 +0000 http://1431873917#comment-102 <p>Check out my blog for more details about backing up...but whatevr you do, BACK UP!</p> Check out my blog for more details about backing up…but whatevr you do, BACK UP!

]]> By: hands-free heart http://www.thehomeofficeorganizer.com/are-you-backed-up/comment-page-1/#comment-103 hands-free heart Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:58:20 +0000 http://1431873917#comment-103 <p>Just a warning for external drives...</p> <p>We were using an external drive to store all our 5 years worth of digital pictures... DH is quite a photographer, so he was quite panicked when the external drive stopped working (it was less than a year old). We don't back up the pictures regularly enough, (we do back up our other data weekly,) so we would have lost several months worth of pictures.</p> <p>Warranties do nothing to replace the value of lost pictures or data... sending it in for repair meant realizing that they probably would format the drive (erasing all content) in effort to restore its functionality!</p> <p>Fortunately, DH is also a computer expert, so he took the drive apart himself (voiding the warranty!) and installed it internally in the computer and it works fine... no pictures lost!</p> <p>Apparently it was the power source that had gone bad... so for that graphic artist... make sure you are regularly backing up that external drive as well!</p> Just a warning for external drives…

We were using an external drive to store all our 5 years worth of digital pictures… DH is quite a photographer, so he was quite panicked when the external drive stopped working (it was less than a year old). We don’t back up the pictures regularly enough, (we do back up our other data weekly,) so we would have lost several months worth of pictures.

Warranties do nothing to replace the value of lost pictures or data… sending it in for repair meant realizing that they probably would format the drive (erasing all content) in effort to restore its functionality!

Fortunately, DH is also a computer expert, so he took the drive apart himself (voiding the warranty!) and installed it internally in the computer and it works fine… no pictures lost!

Apparently it was the power source that had gone bad… so for that graphic artist… make sure you are regularly backing up that external drive as well!

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