Three Day Weekend Backup
So, instead of doing some much needed housework, prepping the guest room to make way for baby, or doing any number of constructive tasks around the house this weekend, I shirked my responsibilities and opted to back up anew my music collection to five external hard drives. I’ve made so many changes to my master library as of late that simply copying over the changes to my various backup hard drives was not an option. Turns out that pushing 196+ GB over a USB 2.0 line takes six hours. Due to my lack of SATA / FireWire cables I couldn’t daisy chain the lot of them together and make just one big rapid push.
After a few failures, stops and starts, and a Blackberry falling from the heavens and hitting a unique series of keys that killed one backup job (Heh…I swear it wasn’t me!) I finally got all of my backups completed. In the end, I felt stretched and spent, just like Peter Griffin after he watched The Ring:
I’m now in the process of making duplicates of my MAME games for a co-worker. I’ve completed copying five of the 14 DVDs. It’s a hard core collection of games to be sure, and the duplications will continue throughout tomorrow.
Whilst in the midst of this Herculean, marathon backup undertaking, I’m reminded of what Tyler Durden once said. ”The things you own end up owning you.” I feel as if my data is pimping me out, slapping me across the face with the back of its hand while screaming, “Where’s my money?!”
Ahh, but there I go again, anthropomorphizing my computer. Next thing you know I’ll be dressing up as a vintage Macintosh, attending furry conventions, and looking for the nearest yiff pile to dive into (God, why do I know such things?).
