12-29-2008, 01:13 AM
Back at the end of Oct I started having problems with my MBP - wouldn't boot. My last backup was two weeks earlier, and I had just a few files I needed.
Long story short, I used Disk Warrior which found bad blocks and was not able to repair. I tried various recovery programs with no success, but File Salvage did the trick and pulled the files I needed.
Then I tried to re-load the system and start over - but by that time the drive wouldn't mount at all - so off to Houston under Applecare, where they installed a new drive and drive cable. All of the shipping was delayed over and over by the weather here in Washington. First getting the empty box took 4 days, then when the computer came back it was delaye due to weather and Christmas.
Yesterday, I got a call very early from a nice FedEx rep asking if my business would be open (I usually do Apple shipments from the office so that someone will be around to sign) and when I confirmed no, she asked if they could deliver to my home - and when I told her that the road was still icy, and offered to pick it up at the local "mailboxes" business, she agreed.
So, after a backup and reloading the missing files - and bringing over two months of work that I did on my husband's Macbook, I'm back in business.
Needless to say, I need a better backup strategy for the MBP - my iMac has a Time Machine external backup - but since the MBP is generally used in the living room, or on the road, I need to figure something out.
Real world experiences with Time Capsule would be welcome - as well as ideas of other possible solutions.
I have a firewire 320G drive that I've been doing semi-regular SuperDuper backups to - running a wireless network off a Qwest DSL router.
Long story short, I used Disk Warrior which found bad blocks and was not able to repair. I tried various recovery programs with no success, but File Salvage did the trick and pulled the files I needed.
Then I tried to re-load the system and start over - but by that time the drive wouldn't mount at all - so off to Houston under Applecare, where they installed a new drive and drive cable. All of the shipping was delayed over and over by the weather here in Washington. First getting the empty box took 4 days, then when the computer came back it was delaye due to weather and Christmas.
Yesterday, I got a call very early from a nice FedEx rep asking if my business would be open (I usually do Apple shipments from the office so that someone will be around to sign) and when I confirmed no, she asked if they could deliver to my home - and when I told her that the road was still icy, and offered to pick it up at the local "mailboxes" business, she agreed.
So, after a backup and reloading the missing files - and bringing over two months of work that I did on my husband's Macbook, I'm back in business.
Needless to say, I need a better backup strategy for the MBP - my iMac has a Time Machine external backup - but since the MBP is generally used in the living room, or on the road, I need to figure something out.
Real world experiences with Time Capsule would be welcome - as well as ideas of other possible solutions.
I have a firewire 320G drive that I've been doing semi-regular SuperDuper backups to - running a wireless network off a Qwest DSL router.