{"id":146,"date":"2007-08-24T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fishingforcustomers.com\/learning-the-hard-way\/"},"modified":"2007-08-24T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T22:47:00","slug":"learning-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/learning-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning the Hard Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5102406731597602066\"<\/a>Over the years I’ve watched various clients experience hard drive failure complicated by lack of data backup. Its an ugly thing to watch as a business owner discovers that his most valuable assett, his client records, are gone.<\/p>\n

To make sure that doesn’t happen to me, I backup everything to an external drive that can plug into any USB port on any other computer. Unfortunately, I’ve also given in to the temptation to “do it tomorrow.” <\/p>\n

This afternoon, while reaching for the phone, I spilled half a cup of coffee into the keyboard of my laptop, which promptly stopped working. I’m embarrassed to admit that my most recent backup was two weeks ago. <\/p>\n

I spent the afternoon learning about data recovery, and thanks to my new friends at a local computer repair facility I have all of the files I’ve been working on this week restored to my external drive and accessible from older computer I keep for emergencies. <\/p>\n

I was lucky. This could have been ugly. I’m implementing a daily backup regimen.<\/p>\n

How about you? Are you backing up daily? Weekly? Whenever you think what you’re working on is important? Whenever you have the time?<\/p>\n

Got any hard drive failure horror stories to share?<\/p>\n

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Over the years I’ve watched various clients experience hard drive failure complicated by lack of data backup. Its an ugly thing to watch as a business owner discovers that his most valuable assett, his client records, are gone. To make sure that doesn’t happen to me, I backup everything to an external drive that can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop-my-site.com\/fishing2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}