Are you prepared for the worst?
Our project colleague got her apartment robbed when we were in Krakow, along with two set of car keys and the car itself (forget about insurance), computer and other stuff, and her passport (she doesn’t remember its number). Bruna street, near SGH university, first floor; new plastic windows slightly opened, were not even damaged.
You feel rather helpless in a situation like this.
But this inspired me to finally get serious about backups. I also live in the first floor apartment and I always leave windows open. Forget the stuff, but all this data, something like 13 years of my personal computing?
I spent something like two hours zipping and transferring first batch of files, 1.8gb altogether, using two 250mb USB drives. That’s because CD burner of the laptop doesn’t seem to work any more.
When I tried to reassembly zip volumes I found that the archives were corrupted. Must be this fetish company-branded black leather pen drive.
I will wait for a crossed network cable.
