Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jim Janney Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:43:33 -0600 Organization: objurgating the centipede Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2pwr56jch6.fsf@shell.xmission.com> References: <9vhcjmFs7eU1@mid.individual.net> <220420121444223654%invid@loclanet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="PnllQd880uOddfy6hsxHuQ"; logging-data="12551"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18RQmFSVDd0F1lO1Nxag2NP" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AsfQG/RyFd/9dqa2gH74hO0rdbQ= sha1:yhaAO5B7bCdccpGEdCaIkvlkr2Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:24286 Invid Fan writes: > In article <9vhcjmFs7eU1@mid.individual.net>, TaliesinSoft > wrote: > >> This incident was by no means the first time I have helped a person set >> up a backup routine. My curiosity is what is it that seems to make >> people not realize the importance of regular backups? > > In the end, for many of us what's on the computer is disposable. > Seriously, there's nothing that can't just be reinstalled, no data that > I REALLY can't do without. I do have a Time Machine backup drive now, > but before that would just occasionally drag my iTunes library onto an > extra drive if I happened to have one. I don't bother "backing up" > anything else in my life, so don't really see the need with the > computer. Every year when I do my taxes I burn a CD for all the files going back to 2001, and recently I've also started copying them to a thumb drive. Very handy last year when my mini unexpectedly refused to boot in late March. Addresses and phone numbers all get synced to and from my Palm (have to find a new solution to that eventually). Other than that, when a computer stops working I buy a new one and move on. At work it's a different story, of course, but once I push something to the repository it's out of my hands. -- Jim Janney