05-29-2008, 01:31 AM
The default assumption here is that forum members back up regularly, religiously, as a habit (I know I do, like many here, having learned the hard way long ago) so an extra-special backup for an update seems redundant. Those who "make sure and back up" before an update are revealing that they aren't already backed up and ready to go, or haven't recently backed up. This concept is foreign to me. Thus the friendly hazing.
Besides automatic TM hourly backups, my macs do scheduled backups nightly, weekly, monthly, etc., to redundant media. I don't consider this OCD, I consider it normal computing habits. Now that storage is increasingly cheap and abundant, everybody can easily maintain the habit. I guess I was too optimistic in assuming most members here are already backed up?
Besides automatic TM hourly backups, my macs do scheduled backups nightly, weekly, monthly, etc., to redundant media. I don't consider this OCD, I consider it normal computing habits. Now that storage is increasingly cheap and abundant, everybody can easily maintain the habit. I guess I was too optimistic in assuming most members here are already backed up?