{"id":1290,"date":"2012-06-20T20:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:01:02","slug":"computer-disaster-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2012\/06\/20\/computer-disaster-averted\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Disaster Averted"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The call came from Guinea, West Africa.\u00a0 “Dave, the electricity went off while our computer was in the midst of Windows updates.\u00a0 The drive\u00a0crashed.\u00a0 So can I just\u00a0copy\u00a0my Casper image to restore the drive?”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dave’s response?\u00a0 “NO!\u00a0 Don’t do that, or you will lose all your backed-up data.\u00a0You need to physically move the drive with the image to your computer, and consider it your new drive.”\u00a0 The conversation went on, and ended with Dave saying, “I’m so glad you called before attempting this.”<\/p>\n

And Dave was genuinely thankful.\u00a0\u00a0Because\u00a0just last week, he had another call AFTER someone else had done the same thing. That man lost\u00a0everything with no hope for recovery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0Dave or his co-worker, Alan, go over the restoration procedure when setting missionaries up with a Casper backup system, many forget what to do.\u00a0 And when they think they have lost everything on their computer, panic takes precedence over procedure.\u00a0<\/p>\n