It seems that every couple of years, disaster strikes one of my computers. I've made it through 2009 relatively incident-free. Until this past weekend, that is.
My heart sunk the minute I saw that blue screen of death. I rebooted and rebooted and rebooted with no success. The darn thing just wouldn't boot up and the internal drive was making the most ominous click-click-click sound.
To be fair, I'm pretty tough on computers... especially my primary one that sits on my desk. But still, my first thought when something goes wrong like this is always, "WHY???? Why NOW???!!?! I have NO TIME for this!!!"
With project deadlines looming, I went out and bought a new hard drive Saturday afternoon and began the process of recovering data from my disaster back-up system that evening. Amazingly, I was pretty much restored whole within 24 hours.
It's another time that Carbonite - the service I use to automatically back-up my files - saved me.
If you aren't using something automated that runs behind the scenes and remembers to save every file for you, the time to do so is now!
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