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Backing Up is a Beautiful Thing

Monday morning I came in and booted up my machine ready to get some work done and to my surprise all I had on the screen was a flashing icon showing that there was no operating system found. My first instinct was to restart the computer, thinking it may just be a fluke error.  Again, that little icon starts flashing. As my stomach dropped, I remembered that I had made a backup of all my files.  I thought to myself “No problem, I will just have a new drive ordered, get the machine running and just restore my files from the server.” Well that would have been a great idea, if I wanted to put hours of work in to getting the computer back to the same working state as it was when I started.

After talking to one of our engineers about the problem, it was suggested that I just restore from the Time Machine backup.  I haven’t been too familiar with Time Machine in the past; however I figured I would investigate doing this.  After a few minutes on the Apple support site I was convinced that this would work and I was relieved to know that I wouldn’t have to spend hours installing software and searching for the little things, such as the fonts that were installed on the system before the crash.

It took me a bit to locate the OSX disks, as they were stored away, after the move to Softwyre’s awesome new office.

Once I started the system recovery, I realized that I have never used a recovery system that is so user friendly.  With a few clicks of the mouse the system took care of the rest.  Sure it took a while to recover everything, but Time Machine saved the company and me, hours of manual work.

In conclusion, I must say that this has taught me the beauty of backups.

Are you sure you are backing up?  If not, Contact Hardwyre/Softwyre, we back it up!