back up

Today was a day of sad news. Today we found out that not only had our home computer died due to faulty RAM, but that the hard drive had been wiped. Five years' worth of photos, documents, software and all manner of things, gone in an instant. Everything.

Ništa. Nada. Niente. Rien. Nichts. Zip. Gone.

The silver lining is that we backed up. Only sporadically, so we're not sure how much has fallen through the cracks. But - hopefully - we still have most of it on various external hard drives, CDs and USBs.

I just wanted to take the opportunity to remind anyone reading this to back up. Yes it seems to take forever to copy everything over, and yes it feels like a futile exercise in using up extra memory for duplicated of everything. But when you're facing down the barrel of losing everything, that time turns into time well spent.

Think about it for a moment. Think of all the photos you've taken over the last 5 years and are saved to the computer and wiped from the camera. All the birthdays, weddings, holidays, and everyday moments. Think about all the documents you've written for work, for job applications or your studies. Think of all the little bits and pieces floating about. Then imagine it all gone from your life forever. Completely irretrievable.

Hit the back up button today!