As can be easily learned as you look through my blog, I am a productivity-minded geek. I have been \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 geek for nearly my entire life and have become increasingly interested in productivity over the last 5-or-so years. That combination worked out perfectly this past weekend.<\/p>\n
As a IT professional, I know that\u00c2\u00a0backups are important<\/a>. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any (or recent) backups of your data, can you really say that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to you? As a serious\u00c2\u00a0GTD<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcer, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust my memory and create repeating tasks in OmniFocus to help remember what I need to do when I need to do it.<\/p>\n Those two things came together to my advantage on Saturday. Friday night, OmniFocus reminded me that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been six weeks since I had backed up my PlayStation 3. No problem, hook up a spare USB drive, kick off a backup, and go to bed. Saturday afternoon the system died. The dreaded flashing red LED which indicates there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hardware component problem. Bummer.\u00c2\u00a0No worries, though. At\u00c2\u00a0work<\/a>, one of the perks is being able to get a dead console repaired or exchanged for free. In about a week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time, I should have a replacement restored and back up and running.<\/p>\n If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to have something fail, see if you can have a recent backup of it, first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As can be easily learned as you look through my blog, I am a productivity-minded geek. I have been \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdoing\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 geek for nearly my entire life and have become increasingly interested in productivity over the last 5-or-so years. That combination … Continue reading