by | August 7th, 2007
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There it is, folks.
3,061 miles round trip from our driveway in TX to Chicago and back.
The great Midwest Road Trip is finished and we’re glad to be home, but just in case we get too cocky about all the fun at the BlogHer conference and all the articles we have to write….the laptop crashed.
So, it’s off to call up some repair expertise now that I’ve experienced a major computer malfunction like my fellow travel writer Liz Lewis.
Yes, I had some items backed up and my email accounts and blogs are all net-based so I didn’t lose them, but I hadn’t backed up as thoroughly or regularly as I should have.
Learn from my mistake and get a big fat portable hard drive to back up your documents, photos and bookkeeping software!
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Yes, it’s not a matter of IF your computer’s hard drive will fail, it’s a matter of WHEN.nrnrI use SuperDuper to make a clone of my MacBook Pro’s hard drive to a tiny LaCie Rugged 160 GB drive. This way, I have a bootable copy of my computer should its hard drive fail.
A painful lesson we all learn. Even if you have a big fat external hard drive, they fail too. Look for some sort of online and offsite back up. I’ve been using carbonite.com and it’s been pretty good so far.
Hi Mike, Hi Josh,
Thanks very much for the support and suggestions. We use an online/offsite daily backup for key stuff on our family desktop, and it was on my Things To Do list to come up with a good backup plan for the laptop, but I waited too long.
My first run at fixing it through Geek Squad was not successful, but I’m ready to dig deeper than their analysis, so I have calls out to various tech-savvy friends (and I’m boning up on how to replace a motherboard myself.)
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