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How To Manage The Disaster Of A Dead Hard Drive
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
I devoted much of Saturday afternoon to tweaking a few of PixoBebo’s graphic elements. When done, I saved my work in Fireworks, uploaded the changes to the site. Looks nice, right? Richer color, a little drop shadow here and there. Little did I know that my saved graphics would be the last thing ever saved on my Mac’s hard drive.
Reader Comments
randy said:
Aside from using Superduper and Time Machine, I have Mozy running in the background backing up my important files offline. It works great. Worth a mention for sure.
brett said:
If you’re looking for a terabyte hard drive, I recommend apple’s time capsule. when my macbook hard drive died last week, I was lucky that I’d bought a 1TB time capsule two days earlier.
TC does hourly backups automatically and wirelessly, so when the Apple genius replaced my hard drive (free under applecare), TC and Time Machine restored everything automatically. (It took 5 or 6 hours to restore, so I went out to a play and dinner while it ran.) as far as I can tell, I didn’t lose any data, just a day of replacing the hard drive and restoring the data. good luck!
spencer128 said:
Well, you sold me. The longer I thought about how I’d feel if my Mac died and I lost all my software the worse the feeling was. I bought two extra hard drives. One for TimeMachine and one for SuperDuper.
It took all night to backup with TimeMachine, and a few hours to backup with SuperDuper. I feel better today.