the day the disaster struck
On March 25th I had a major hardware failure. My desktop machine had a SATA hard drive. I were performing some maintenance when I discovered that the SATA cable was loose. I quickly noticed that the cable socket on the hard drive had cracked and the pins were pointing in arbitrary directions. Needles to say this is not something that could be easily fixed or circumvented. Now I’m crippled with my old IBM T20 running a fresh Hardy installation.
Of course all is not lost, because I naturally have backups, right… fail!
I’ve never before had anything important enough to be backed up. I use imap for emails so they are safe. And of course there was some random stuff I’ve written or created but nothing with true value, just sentimental. Still now when the data is gone I really hope I had done things differently.
Sounds very stupid now, but I was going to make my first backups on Monday. If you haven’t done anybackups lately do them now. Tomorrow it might be too late.
But still, all is not lost! …to be continued…
