found drama

Via a Wired article: To cut a long story short, the tedious backup procedure was cavalierly dispensed with after Panther was successfully installed on two other machines earlier in the afternoon: a 1-GHz eMac and a 1.6-GHz PowerMac G5.

In both cases, the machines were first backed up to one of OWC’s excellent external FireWire drives. Panther was installed as an update to the current operating system, not a clean install, and the upgraded machines were up and running in about an hour. …backing up the iBook was foolishly skipped. Typically, the iBook was the only one of the three machines loaded with several years’ worth of digital pictures, music, e-mail, writing and other precious files. Little of it, naturally, was saved elsewhere.

Another good review, this time beginning w/ a foolish tale of [l]user-error (re: not backing up) … though one pauses to wonder why the installation would have gone that way.

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