[OT] Backing up (was: View scripts of my standalone?)

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Brigham MD wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:31 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
> 
>> And then..... AAAArrrgghhhhhh!!!!! A calendar she'd be working with,
>> the most important of half a dozen calendars, for some reason she
>> inexplicably deleted, at that was it, it was gone! She looked high and
>> low, but it was gone. She was almost in tears when she told me what
>> happened. So I pointed out the clock icon with the anti-clockwise
>> arrow around and the Enter Time Machine menu item.... and 5 min later
>> we had her calendar back.
> 
> Time Machine has saved my sorry ass on several occasions. I have finally 
> learned the hard way to back up obsessively. I LOOOOOVE Time Machine! 

I got an email from a client last week who was frantic because he'd 
tried a web-based backup system and it mangled his stacks. His data was 
hosed. He had trusted the system, so didn't have a separate backup, and 
he wanted to know if I could unmangle the data. As it turned out, the 
stacks weren't really bad, they only needed to be tweaked a little, so 
all was well.

Then I mentioned that if he had Leopard and Time Machine, he should turn 
it on, it would save his butt. He wrote back and said that he had told 
me the same thing over a year ago, before I'd upgraded, and he'd 
recommended I get Leopard just for its backup features.

We both blinked at each other across virtual space for a moment as we 
realized that he had his stacks all along. We'd both forgotten.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com