Last night I was working on a project at 1am and I decided it was time to get some sleep and start fresh in the morning. To ensure a fast start in the morning I left open a connection with a trusted source so a program could continue to run. This will be known as mistake #1.
I wake up and my personal computer is showing the blue screen of death. If you do not know what the blue screen of death is, it is when your computer is fried so bad it cant even run windows anymore or show a pretty error message. It shows the most basic blue screen that says in nice words “this computer is ready to be melted down for recycling and has already started melting inside”
Thankfully this was not on one of my servers just my personal computer. My sites are all still working. Now I am trying to rebuild everything from the backups I have on my laptop. I just loving wasting a few days dealing with this crap. And what really makes me excited is I don’t even know what precisley made my computer blew up since it blew up while I was asleep and when it was on a supposedly secure and trusted connection.
ps – i cant find the backup for my emails and contacts, so i am going to be disconnected for a while as i try to rebuild this information as best as possible.
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A great tool you might want to use in the future is FolderShare (www.foldershare.com). It’s free and can sync multiple files on multiple computers with one another. It does it instantly so you don’t have the hassle of constantly updating your files. I love it. For better or worse it is owned by Microsoft.
as much as technology has helped my life, when it comes to backups i like to manually do it so i know it was done properly. i’m too paranoid to trust it to some program even though the program would do it faster and better than me
An external hard drive and robocopy are great to backup your data. The initial population of the data to the external hard drive is eventually time consuming depending on the amount of data, but after that only changed files get ‘mirrored’ out to the external drive.
Christoph