{"id":76,"date":"2009-07-07T20:48:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhickendesign\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-01-30T02:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T02:14:34","slug":"life-design-tip-backup-your-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/2009\/07\/life-design-tip-backup-your-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Design Tip &#8211; Backup your stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/markandkelley.com\/mark\/?p=157\">Recovering data from a failed hard drive<\/a><\/h3>\n<div style=\"float:right; margin:10px; padding:10px; background-color:#FFFFFF;\">\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/mac_hard_drive-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" title=\"hard_drive\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"float:right;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s not much worse than realizing that you just lost months and months of work.\u00a0 We keep things backed up on a fairly tight schedule but it still got to our nerves when the hard drive went bad a few weeks ago.\u00a0 The silence between each click of a stuck hard drive spindle seems to last forever when it&#8217;s your data at risk.\u00a0 Our experience is yet another testimony that hard drives DO fail.\u00a0 Backup early and often.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for us we didn&#8217;t have to lose anything.\u00a0 A great tip that worked for us was to leave the hard drive in a zip lock back in the fridge over night.\u00a0 The next day we plugged it in and spun it up.\u00a0 Everything worked long enough for us to recover all of our most recent projects.\u00a0 What would we do without refrigerators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovering data from a failed hard drive There&#8217;s not much worse than realizing that you just lost months and months of work.\u00a0 We keep things backed up on a fairly tight schedule but it still got to our nerves when the hard drive went bad a few weeks ago.\u00a0 The silence between each click of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/2009\/07\/life-design-tip-backup-your-stuff\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Design Tip &#8211; Backup your stuff&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickendesign.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}