So You’ve Backed-Up Your Hard-Drive. What Next?
As a freelance creative designer, I like to backup my stuff. I use Mac Time Machine to backup my hard-drive. I have off-site backup via Backblaze to create constant backups to a off-site server, too. I have a backup Macbook just in case my iMac goes on the blink.
I thought I’d covered everything—except a backup chair.
Yes, after years of use, I was just sitting on my office chair when it broke in half when I was checking my email. I’ll not mention the manufacturers name here, but lets just say that when I bought it, it was flat-packed in Sweden’s finest cardboard.
You can’t backup everything. Lesson learned.
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9 Comments
Wow – I never would have thought of backing up my chair! Thankfully mine is brand new, so I have quite a while before it breaks. I hope.
12 Oct 2011 08:10 pm Jason Vana
(Twitter: @jasonvana)
Jason → Being a good Samaritan, a gave my old chair away to a friend last year. Maybe I should call him and demand it back
12 Oct 2011 10:10 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)
Posts like this are the reason I subscribe! It just goes to show, you can take as many digital precautions as possible, but still be let down by analogue technology.
Oh well, it’s always fun to visit a certain well-known Swedish furniture superstore, right?
13 Oct 2011 12:10 am Paul Murray
(Twitter: @pmurraydesign)
I suppose now you’re some sort of stand-up designer.
13 Oct 2011 09:10 am Ray
(Twitter: @rayvellest)
The moral of the story? Lay off the pies.
13 Oct 2011 02:10 pm David Airey
(Twitter: @DavidAirey)
Paul → When I get around to it, probably. To be fair, though, I had the chair a few years. It sort of snapped in half at the metal joint near the top.
David → Just some holiday weight, albeit from LAST Christmas, Ha!
13 Oct 2011 11:10 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)
Ray → Good one
For now, Ive half-inched one the the dining room table chairs and a large cushion…until the wife takes them back.
13 Oct 2011 11:10 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)
I don’t know if this is helpful or not (as you’re in the UK) but I’ve had a pair of ergonomic chairs by a company called Gregory for the last 14 or 15 years that have been great (and obviously lasted well…)
See them here; http://goo.gl/e3xUr
If you can pick one up in the UK, they’re great.
21 Oct 2011 04:10 am Andrew Keir
Andrew → Thanks for the link. I see the “Tech chair” is NZ Only, so if it’s too good for the Australians, then it definitely won’t be available for the British
22 Oct 2011 04:10 pm Andrew Kelsall
(Twitter: @AndrewKelsall)