my hard drive just crashed. well one of them did, the non SSD in my laptop. i have one drive with all my applications, and one with all my data. the one with all my data, like documents and photos, is apparently non existent according to my Macbook Pro, and i’m traveling back from italy with a ton of pictures, and plenty of business work i want to tackle.
i’m starting to freak out.
i still have my nerve, i’m going through the things i might lose. i have a backup at home, but the thing is, while on vacation, and checking in on my home computer with LogMeIn.com, the backup drive randomly went offline, as in, the the computer reported that is unexpected disconnected… that’s not a great sign.
so i’m on a plane, and thinking my internal drive, the majority of my data just crashed, and so did my backup drive at home. i have a good chunk of this backed up to CrashPlan online backup, but not all of it, and that means weeks of attempting to restore if i have to get it from the web. there’s also a lot of my clients data that is fully backed up Dropbox, so at least that’s not a problem.
still, i feel completely helpless, especially strapped into this chair, miles away from anything i can do about it.
i’m mostly concerned about getting my work data back, and my videos from my europe vacation i just took. i think everything else, mostly can be replaced, but the questions is when, and how?
if my drive at home didn’t crash, hopefully i can restore in a few hours, that is, if i replace my drive, because as of now, it’s not showing up at all in my laptop. if that crashed, i’m looking at a few days of downloading and sorting through data from CrashPlan. oi! this could be a 4-48+ process. crashes are messy, even if you know what you’re doing.
it figures, someone who constantly touts backing up as critical get’s caught in this situation. i can only hope for the best and use what internal applications i have running off my SSD drive, basically applications and a slim amount of data, including my Evernote database, which will have to do for now as i type this.
fair to say i’m freaked for now, i hope it works out and the other laptop drive spins up eventually for recovery….otherwise it’s going to be a long weekend of downloading and restoring.
always backup, everywhere, all the time…use CrashPlan, and Dropbox. it’ll save you time, and money.
UPDATE ========
the ribbon cable that connected my internal laptop drive “popped out” – a freak rare thing, it was easily put back after taking the back panel of my Macbook Pro off.
additionally, the power went out in my house, and fried my backup drive enclosure (the thing the actual hard drive goes in) but the hard drive itself, and all the data was perfectly fine.
no damage done, whew! i got lucky.