Computer Based Home Business
As someone who has slowly been building their online business you can probably imagine I spend a greater portion of my time using my computer. This is wonderful when things are working, unfortunately when things to wrong; well they can really go wrong.
My computer has been acting a little funny lately but I’ve just continued on and not worried too much about it; hindsight being what it is I now know I should have prepared myself a little better.
I turned my computer on thinking that I wanted to check a few things before heading out for awhile only to discover that pretty much nothing happened. After talking sternly to my computer I tried again with the same result.
After a few rushed phonecalls to try and figure out what was wrong I ended up having to pack it up and take to back to where I’d purchased it from several years ago.
It seems everthing had pretty much just blown up, burnt out or generally decided not to work anymore. So basically my computer wasn’t any good and no amount of tweaking, touching and swearing was going to get it running again.
The upside is that I now have a new computer (well box at least, still have the old moniter and keyboard etc) but the downside, and boy is it a downside, is that I have absolutely none of my work related information - no bookmarks, no emails, no documents (including my websites) no nothing, except a very bare computer.
It’s at this point in time that I am reminded about things like backing up (thankfully I do keep a lot of information written down so I have some stuff at least) but there’s a whole lot more I could and should do in case the unforseen ever happens again.
So this is my gentle reminded to all of you who use your computer for your work from home business
August 21st, 2007 at 11:07 am
It must be a real setback to lose all your bookmarks.
August 21st, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Yeah - it was. Though if nothing else at least I’m now making sure my bookmarks are what I actually want rather than a big long list of pages I kept for some reason and never went back to.
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September 7th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
The lesson here is simple… backup everything. I have heard so many horror stories such as these. Buy yourself a 1 gig memory stick for your documents and burn your website on to a disk, just in case of some catastrophe as a electromagnetic pulse or something.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
You’re absolutely right and it’s not just the stuff you use everyday you should back up - sometimes you don’t realise you even need something until you go looking on your computer for it only to discover it’s gone