{"id":22149,"date":"2013-02-18T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2016-09-19T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:02:37","slug":"the-importance-of-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/the-importance-of-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Macbook Pro has been a little flaky lately, so I ran disk utility on it early this afternoon. Surprise: the hard drive was in bad shape and needed to be wiped and restored from a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Backup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On shore power, I don&#8217;t think about such things. My UPS is always on and therefore so is my external backup drive. Time Machine backs up my system once per hour. When boondocking, I tend to be laxer about such matters, only backing up when I absolutely need to run the inverter for something else&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I froze when I saw that message. I know better than to run systems maintenance before not only a Time Machine backup but also a bootable SuperDuper! backup. When was the last time I backed up? Yesterday morning. What had I worked on in that time? Nothing I needed to recover. My email was still on the server and the only picture I&#8217;d uploaded to iPhoto had been shared on Facebook. A day old backup wasn&#8217;t going to be a huge loss. Phew!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s involved in wiping a drive and then restoring it on a PC to bring a user back to the exact same stage there were at when the backup was done. On a Mac, you just select the Time Machine backup you want to use for the backup and then go do something else for a few hours. I&#8217;ve complained a lot about Apple lately, but after a frustrating afternoon on the PC, I can only say that it&#8217;s good to be home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Macbook Pro has been a little flaky lately, so I ran disk utility on it early this afternoon. Surprise: the hard drive was in bad shape and needed to be wiped and restored from a backup. Backup&#8230; On shore power, I don&#8217;t think about such things. My UPS is always on and therefore so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242,635,5,9,1039,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magnolia-beach","category-north-america","category-rving","category-tech","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}