{"id":25,"date":"2005-06-19T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-06-19T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T06:11:58","slug":"backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/19\/backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, literally I&#8217;m back up and running with a new disk and most of my software and data recovered. There are still several key files that I&#8217;m trying to recover via software, but that&#8217;s not going too well and as time passes, hope dims. Thanks to having a second disk on hand which I could sacrifice I was actually functional last weekend. The real replacement didn&#8217;t arrive until Monday afternoon, and I&#8217;ve spent may hours locating, downloading, re-configuring and remembering passwords etc. Yeah, one of the files I lost was an encrypted database that had all my userids and passwords for almost everything on my computer, web sites etc.<\/p>\n<p>On one of my very first job interviews over 30+ years ago the interviewer asked &#8220;What&#8217;s the most important thing in IT?&#8221;. Well, I made up some answer that I thought was pretty good, but it didn&#8217;t line up with his. His answer was simple, &#8220;Backup&#8221;. I&#8217;m beginning to think he was right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, literally I&#8217;m back up and running with a new disk and most of my software and data recovered. There are still several key files that I&#8217;m trying to recover via software, but that&#8217;s not going too well and as time passes, hope dims. Thanks to having a second disk on hand which I could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}