Public Service Announcement
I had a moment of panic tonight: I had just installed a couple of system updates, which I’d been holding out on for a while, and then rebooted. The system hung while I was waiting for the login window to load.
The first thought that ran through my head was, “Oh, God, and my backups haven’t been working lately…”
I use SuperDuper. It’s a wonderful program, but it has one weird bug. For some reason, occasionally, it will stop acknowledging that my backup drive exists. Then, until I get around to fixing the problem, every morning at 4 a.m. the scheduled backup window pops up but never does anything. It has been doing this for about the last two weeks, and I’ve been dragging my feet on fixing it.
So you can imagine that I lost my mind when I couldn’t log in. I panicked, plain and simple. Where am I going to get those files for a freelance project from? Can I recreate it? Have I really lost that many photos? Et cetera, et cetera.
It turned out to be nothing, but consider this your PSA for the day: Always make backups.