{"id":169,"date":"2006-07-17T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-07-17T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T20:51:54","slug":"the-importance-of-backing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/07\/17\/the-importance-of-backing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of backing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I had a little bit of a scare.  My wife and I were playing online and all of a sudden, the Coldplay album she was listening to stopped playing.  When she tried again, iTunes said it could no longer locate the tracks for that album and a host of others.  Fearing the worst I checked the hard drive on our server and sure enough, I could no longer access those files.  In the end no data was lost.  A single data block on the disk had gone bad, but was easily repaired.  Thankfully I had just made a backup of our iTunes library the week before.  What I had neglected to backup was the rest of the server, including this blog!!  Circuit City just happened to be running a great deal this weekend on a 160GB ATA drive from Seagate for $39. (after rebates of course)  I bought 2, one for the server and one as a backup.  The server is back up and running on the new drive, and I have a complete copy of all the data on the other drive.  Phew, I feel a little better now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, I had a little bit of a scare. My wife and I were playing online and all of a sudden, the Coldplay album she was listening to stopped playing. When she tried again, iTunes said it could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/07\/17\/the-importance-of-backing-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}