“Backup” has become such a part of our world that we take it for granted. I first learned in 1988 the importance of backing up during a stressful marketing budget planning crunch at work, aided by my first computer, a Leading Edge. Thirty years later you would think it would be ingrained in me to take a darn minute and backup, or better yet, put systems in place to do it automatically.
Last week this blog disappeared for the second time in eight months. More upsetting than the two-line error message at the top of the otherwise blank white screen was my mortification at having no backup. As I attempted to talk myself off the hysteria ledge, my husband and friends encouraged me to wait and see if my website designer could recover the site.
While it’s true I didn’t have a backup for this blog, I do have backup in life. I have people who love and support me no matter what the emergency du jour. And even though that alone wasn’t going to restore this www, it was going to repair me no matter what I may or may not have lost. I know this because I have creased, many times, and they have helped put me back together again, piece by piece.
As you can see, the site has been recovered. Backup processes are now in place and SisterRain.net has the protection it deserves. Take a post out of this blog and make sure your technology has safeguards installed. And more importantly, that your humanware is backed up at all times.
