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Keyboard meltdown

Lesson Learned

Posted on 1 February 20231 February 2023 By earlp

Backing up your computer, ALL files (including software), and backing up your external back-up drives is very, very important!!!

Yes we had a rotten January here at radiocopywriters.com as not only did my computer fail, but so did the external hard drive back-up and the back-up of that back-up.

How did this happen?

I am sure you don’t want to know – but the lesson is that you should never, ever, trying to save a file (or work on your computer) during a thunderstorm.

AND that you should always check your back-ups to make sure that they are backing up and are usable back-ups and not copies of corrupt sectors of your disk (true story!)

So, luckily I had kept thumb drive back-ups of the books that I am working on, and these are the ONLY files that actually work – so I am in the process of writing and catching up with all the blog posts I had written down on pen and paper for you.

So, the long story short, and 3 takeaways from this adventure is:

  1. Yes we are back-up and running.
  2. I am backing up now to the ‘cloud’ and going to a father, son, grandfather style back-up system (3 copies should be enough of a back-up – 4 if you count the cloud)
  3. All posts will start again on Monday.

    There you go… Lesson learned, and we start again on MONDAY!
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