Jul 23 2006
backup and recovery
When? After
- any insensitivity crime.
- sending an email containing a rude word (examples: Toilet, Communion) to a large distribution list.
- rear-ending the car in front (I haven’t done this… yet)
- purchasing a new Sony Vaio laptop called Darling.
We’re going to focus on #4. Darling didn’t come with any CD’s, no recovery CD’s, no copy of Windows XP CD. Darling travelled light. This lack of CD’s was a little distrubing at first, then, in all the excitement of a new pink laptop I soon forgot the lack of recovery CDs….
can you guess what’s coming?
Tonight I made a back-up DVD using the Vaio software. All should be well in the Wendy House when Darling decides she isn’t playing ball. Do I know what I’ve backed up? Um, ‘the system’ of course! What’s the system? I haven’t a clue. Will recovery give me all my programs, anti-spyware and antivirus subscriptions, favourite lists, digital photographs, and email? Darned if I know. Why don’t these programs tell me. All it said was “recommended“, not what that back-up covers. System???? How VAGUE is that!
Obviously, I’ll find out what ’system’ is when I have to ‘recover’ it.
backup and recovery
