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Jun. 24th, 2016 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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kehlen_crow got me to thinking about just how long I've had my current work machine, named Montaigne. I looked at the date stamps of the earliest files on my machine, which suggested mid-December 2012, which is confirmed by my LJ post of the 15th of that month.
I must confess to having experienced something of a "pity party" yesterday, but in the cold, gray light of the next morning, I think that party was fueled, in part, by a reluctance to make a decision regarding What To Do™.
Ultimately, I would've liked to have copied the data from the drive onto, say, a replacement SSD, and then go on with my life. However, despite the software-engineer streak in me, there is only so much that can be done by repetitively attempting to create a system image that can later be restored.
At this point, I am confident that—between my manual backups and my use of SpiderOak—loss of data is not a big worry. It's that spaghetti-bowl of intermingled operating system and applications that's at stake, and I'm quickly wrapping my mind around the fact that it just is not going to survive.
I need to buckle down and get stuff done.
Cheers...
kehlen_crow got me to thinking about just how long I've had my current work machine, named Montaigne. I looked at the date stamps of the earliest files on my machine, which suggested mid-December 2012, which is confirmed by my LJ post of the 15th of that month.I must confess to having experienced something of a "pity party" yesterday, but in the cold, gray light of the next morning, I think that party was fueled, in part, by a reluctance to make a decision regarding What To Do™.
Ultimately, I would've liked to have copied the data from the drive onto, say, a replacement SSD, and then go on with my life. However, despite the software-engineer streak in me, there is only so much that can be done by repetitively attempting to create a system image that can later be restored.
At this point, I am confident that—between my manual backups and my use of SpiderOak—loss of data is not a big worry. It's that spaghetti-bowl of intermingled operating system and applications that's at stake, and I'm quickly wrapping my mind around the fact that it just is not going to survive.
I need to buckle down and get stuff done.
Cheers...
