| My computer had a meltdown last night. It was | | | | system from your regular backups and just do it |
| awful. After doing a routine set of Windows Updates | | | | manually. I guess I didn't do it manually enough. |
| I restarted my WXP system and the whole thing | | | | Here's something else I learned. When I copied over |
| crashed. I run WXP on an iMac using virtualization | | | | the backup file for the virtual computer, I suspended |
| software called VMware Fusion. There was no way | | | | the file instead of closing it completely down. When I |
| to fix the virtual file and eventually I had to trash it. | | | | copied over a file that is considered open it really |
| The good news is that I had a backup of the entire | | | | strugged. The entire Mac shut down and wouldn't |
| thing and could use it instead. The bad news is that | | | | restart at all. I was in a panic thinking the world was |
| the backup is 2 months old. Apparently I wasn't | | | | ending for my computer, but by the next morning |
| diligent enough about making backups to protect | | | | (after a good rest of the machine), everything came |
| myself. I lost a lot of work files that will take a long | | | | back fine. At least it seems to be fine. Now I'll do the |
| time to recreate. | | | | copy the right away and shut everything down first. |
| On a Mac operating system you have time machine | | | | Hopefully that takes care of it and things get back to |
| to do regular backups of any changed files. It's all | | | | normal. At least normal as of 2 months ago. Then I |
| very neat and seamless. But since the virtual | | | | get to start rebuilding 2 months worth of lost work. |
| operating systems are such huge files (mine is 40 | | | | Here's my advice, backup everything you can't live |
| GB) it wouldn't really slow down your system to | | | | without. Recovery is sometimes not possible and |
| have that backup every time you do something in it. | | | | there are no do-overs. |
| So the common rule is to exclude the entire virtual | | | | |