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9 Years Ago
I have backup and backups of my photos... I don't backup my system because I can always re-install the apps... My docs live in cloud drives...
Yesterday my Macbook pro screen would not turn on after I got home from work. I did some normal fixes and it came back. Then 3 hours later my Mac locked up and I could not get the screen to light up again.
I think the system board had an error or the SSD failed.
In going over the backups I found one thing I neglected, my Lightroom catalog... having the originals without my lightroom metadata could have been a huge headache.
My mac is a work machine I use at home for personal stuff as well... Part of our work requirements is that are machines are encrypted...
The image you see is my machine doing a Single user mode sync of my data. I was not in compliance because I recently (about a month ago) upgrade my Mac to the newest OS and that required decrypting. Had I been encrypted I would not have been able to do this. I would have had to disassemble my machine and pull the disk, put it in an external enclosure and accessed it with another machine (I was not able to access the disk via target mode).
I was able to grab another Mac at the office and spent all day building it up, upgrading, installing and copying my data back onto the machine.
So this is just a reminder... have good backups... its the things that you forget about that will bight you...
I lost nothing through a whole lot of luck...
I'll be sending the old machine off to Apple for repair on monday... it will be become a spare for the next person in the office who has an issue... hope its not me...
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