{"id":49,"date":"2006-07-13T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/wp\/2006\/07\/13\/backup\/"},"modified":"2006-07-13T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T09:53:09","slug":"backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"backup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a sad side note, my PowerMac&#8217;s harddrive passed<br \/>\naway rather suddenly earlier this week. She started<br \/>\nhaving problems on Sunday- shortness of breath not<br \/>\nable to get up and move around, the usual signs. I<br \/>\nrealized that she wasn&#8217;t going to make it, so I<br \/>\nbought some expensive medication to help her recover<br \/>\nbut didn&#8217;t work. I put her to rest on tuesday after<br \/>\nhaving a long heated night of unwarrented recitation.<br \/>\nI replaced her yesterday with a new larger yet faster<br \/>\nmodel that will hopefully serve to a degree that elder<br \/>\nwould be proud of. I was able tp transplant most of<br \/>\nher important organs to the new sibling, which made<br \/>\nher death much much more bearable.<br \/>\no here is here is the lesson learned:<br \/>\nI had no warning what so ever that disk was failing.<br \/>\nNever made noise, S.M.A.R.T verified on Disk Utility<br \/>\nand Disk Warrior. I had a perfectly good backup but<br \/>\nwas older. So I started a brand new back up and while<br \/>\ndoing that the harddrive died. Which left me with no<br \/>\nbootable backup.<br \/>\nI will also run Disk Warrior now as a precation instead<br \/>\nof when everything has hit the fan. So if you can<br \/>\nafford it, have two backups on hand. If one fails when<br \/>\nupdating, and then your master disk dies, then you have<br \/>\nthe second backup to refer too.<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t afford two backups now, but hopefully soon.<br \/>\nTonight I am backing up my fresh install with fingers crossed!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mdshivers\" rel=\"tag\">mdshivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sad side note, my PowerMac&#8217;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&#8217;t going to make it, so I bought some expensive medication to help her recover but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-things-apple","category-mac-maintance","category-mac-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mdshivers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}