What's the appropriate grieving period for the loss of a hard drive?

[undeterred]

:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:

[billyskank]

1. Oh, no time at all, because you do nightly backups, right?

:P

[tjwmason]

2. For the second time today - GEEK!

:P

[billyskank]

5. Hey, I don't do nightly backups either

That's not geekdom - that's being a sysadmin. :P

[tjwmason]

9. But that is geekery

Pretending that the random collection of letters caused by bashing one's hand against a keyboard (i.e., sysadmin) is an actual word. :P

[Mutley]

4. What is this 'backup' you speak of?

:7

[billyskank]

7. That's that thing

you wish you had done



ten seconds after your hard drive




poos all over your data.


:D

[Mutley]

8. Ah. Maybe one day I'll do one.

:P

[billyskank]

12. Yes. You'll do one

the day after you have to buy a new hard drive because the old one died.




Just like everybody else does. :D

[Mutley]

13. Computers don't like me too much.

Mine and I have a deal: It works correctly for me, and I don't throw it off the balcony. Seems to be working well so far. :D

[tjwmason]

3. No grieving for the loss of the hard-drive

Potentially eternal grieving for the loss of its contents though - so how many hours of porn videos were saved on there? :P

[JVS]

6. Until you have avenged its death

[undeterred]

10. It was my laptop from work.

I knew it was failing and I have been preparing another laptop for a couple of days. Last thing to do was move my stuff. Well all my work stuff was backed up on the network anyway. I had some personal stuff on the hard drive where it wouldn't be backed up because- well, its personal stuff and its my work computer. Its actually database mailing lists and political stuff- nothing I can't replace, but there was a lot of hours of work in there that I have to start over with. Now I am doing it on my home computer instead. There are bad blocks on the hard drive which make the Operating System impossible to boot. Still a chance that I will get it back at work, but it feels like I have already wasted too much time on it.

At work I have every program in the universe, not so at home, so its tempting to do personal stuff on my work laptop that I really shouldn't.

[Xipe Totec]

11. You DID have a backup, right?

If so, no biggie. A networked file server is the solution.



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[ContraBass Black]

14. And seeing this thread,

I'm now archiving all of my irreplaceable documents in preparation for backup.

[undeterred]

15. then something good has come from my loss

make it a regular habit

[ContraBass Black]

16. Done.

Now archiving my photos.