Sunday, April 19, 2009
CEdO510 WK 3. What would I lose?
If my computer crashed I would lose only a few documents of which I have recently completed and that is about it. I go to great lenghts to protect myself against this because when I was in college I did lose everything and had to learn the hard way the importance of backing things up. My college experience went something to the effect of I had nearly 4 and 1/2 years of documents saved to my computer when the Wisconsin DPI came down with the decision to institute PI-34. Under PI-34 we were asked to complete a portfolio and therefore had to come up with several of our old documents. I got about 1/3 of the way through all of my old documents when my computer crashed and all of my old documents were lost. I was so panicked and worried I thought I was going to die. Here I was stressing about this whole PI-34 crap and now all the sudden things are made even worse by the fact that I could no longer create a portfolio with the required documents. I vowed at that moment from then on I would do whatever it took to make sure that if I were to lose information again, it would not be much as I would always have a relatively new backup handy. In addition, I am paranoid because of this incident so I also keep this information in numerous locations. I have some information on Disks, I have some information on an external hard drive, I have some information on a thumb drive, and I have some information in online storage. The disks and hard drive I keep locked in a fireproof safe as to avoid losing them in a fire and the thumb drive that I once thought would replace these has been slowly fazed out since I broke my first one. The online storage has taken the place of much of that information, however, I'm still a little leary with putting all of my personal information on there so that remains locked in the safe on the external. Every couple of months I make it a point to burn new disc backups and resave to my harddrive so as to prevent the future loss of any information. Someday, maybe I will feel comfortable enough with the online storage to just place everything there and at that point I can stop this constant obsession with securing my data.
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Your hard-earned lesson from college should have taught you to type all of your documents on onion skin paper to be stored in file folders in a firesafe chest. :) Actually, your situation had to be disheartening. I couldn't imagine losing all those files. I have had computer failure on the last keystroke of a paper, but that simply motivated me (angrily) to type the paper again. I too am a little leery of storing personal information online, yet if my banks find comfort in storing my personal information there, perhaps I should join the club. I would struggle storing files in so many places, so I choose only one. Perhaps I will one day rue this decision, but I am not overly concerned about that happening.
ReplyDeleteThis explains why I often envy the paranoid. While all the worrying may put a lot of unnecessary stress into your life, you are protecting yourself from the disaster that I'm sure I would encounter on my own, if it weren't for my paranoid wife.
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