backup!
As a sad side note, my PowerMac's harddrive passed
away rather suddenly earlier this week. She started
having problems on Sunday- shortness of breath not
able to get up and move around, the usual signs. I
realized that she wasn't going to make it, so I
bought some expensive medication to help her recover
but didn't work. I put her to rest on tuesday after
having a long heated night of unwarrented recitation.
I replaced her yesterday with a new larger yet faster
model that will hopefully serve to a degree that elder
would be proud of. I was able tp transplant most of
her important organs to the new sibling, which made
her death much much more bearable.
o here is here is the lesson learned:
I had no warning what so ever that disk was failing.
Never made noise, S.M.A.R.T verified on Disk Utility
and Disk Warrior. I had a perfectly good backup but
was older. So I started a brand new back up and while
doing that the harddrive died. Which left me with no
bootable backup.
I will also run Disk Warrior now as a precation instead
of when everything has hit the fan. So if you can
afford it, have two backups on hand. If one fails when
updating, and then your master disk dies, then you have
the second backup to refer too.
I can't afford two backups now, but hopefully soon.
Tonight I am backing up my fresh install with fingers crossed!