On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, James wrote:
Time Machine is actually quite easy to use, so there is no excuse to not
use it. <a smile>
It's saved my bacon a few times; I went overboard and bought a Time
Capsule, and connected its USB port into a passive hub for two printers (I
don't use the AP on it, but might one day).
Back in the days of Jethro Tull I did teach sys admin for HP. I taught
do backups and TEST them.
<OT>
Ah, Jethro Tull... "Thick as a Brick" was their finest. I saw them in
concert some years back, and yes, Ian can still play the flute one-legged,
despite his age...
</OT>
A major customer had a disk crash, but no wurries he had a cupboard full
of backup tapes. Turns out they were all blank! We investigated and
found they put the completed tapes on the ups transformer while the job
completed.
Nothing quite like degaussing your backups as a CLM...
The customer asked me what to do, my answer annoyed management: Clench
your dagga between your teeth, climb to the top of the tower, and … jump
off.
:-)
The meandering answer is to say: If your data is very valuable, do NOT
turn your machine on, pay the (and you’ll find them easily enough)
recovery experts to do the job. You have no hope of doing it yourself.
And be prepared to pay $$$ as a result, of course, like, how much is your
data worth to you? As it happens, I know someone in that trade, but I
think he retired. Anyway, he's in Australia...
If it is precious, then as merit badges for cubs and scouts, you just
earned a unix-guru badge ‘bad experience with rm’.
Something that you never want to see:
# rm * .o
rm: .o: not found
# ls -l
#
You can get Tb eg Western Digital Passport 5T for under US$200, do get
and do use time machine.
Indeed. There Is No Excuse For Not Doing Backups And Testing Them.
-- Dave
