June 15, 2008
Back Up Names
It’s been over a week since I got the new computer so today I decided it was safe to wipe the old back-up and start backing up the new. (plus I have another copy of the old back-up just in case).
My local back-up (as opposed to the network back up of my work folder) is on an external firewire drive. Great for a quick recovery of a file or job folder accidentally deleted or saved over. I do this via Time Machine. For those of you not fortunate enough to know OS X 10.5 (A.K.A. Leopard) Time Machine is Apple’s built in back up system.
It’s quick, has a fairly small system impact, it works and it has a great Apple Eye Candy interface. I find the set-up to be a bit quirky though. It starts from the assumption that you want to back up everything on the drive. You have to go through and tell it what NOT to back up. It feels a little back asswards to me but you only have to do it once.
The real challenge is what to name the target drive.
I confess to not giving it a moment of thought on the old system and left the name that it had when someone else set up the previous system “Back Up Drive.”
That just wasn’t going to do it for me this time. I wanted something more creative and if possible unique.
This is a seriously geeky undertaking. One I’m sure many people of all levels of nerdishness have undertaken. So right away that rules out “Tardis.”no doubt there are hundreds of Mac geeks out there who have named their Time Machine drive after the Doctor’s time machine.
Likewise I’m sure that are a lot of drives named in some variation of “Way Back Machine.” I’m sure not the first nerd to think of Peabody and Sherman.
Which means I am probably not the fist person to think of naming the drive “Delorean.” Just so you could occasionally exclaim, “You built a time machine … Out of a Delorean?”
At which point I started running out of enthusiasm for the whole thing. It had already taken too much mental effort than it was really worth. So I went for a second level name. Probably also well used, but it does provide that split second of amusement at my own cleverness.
I named the drive “Flux Capaciter,” and found an appropriate image for the icon. It doesn’t take 1.21 gigawatts of power to make time travel possible. It gets all of the power it needs via the firewire connection. Which is good because only backing up when the computer gets struck by lightening is not a good plan.
My local back-up (as opposed to the network back up of my work folder) is on an external firewire drive. Great for a quick recovery of a file or job folder accidentally deleted or saved over. I do this via Time Machine. For those of you not fortunate enough to know OS X 10.5 (A.K.A. Leopard) Time Machine is Apple’s built in back up system.
It’s quick, has a fairly small system impact, it works and it has a great Apple Eye Candy interface. I find the set-up to be a bit quirky though. It starts from the assumption that you want to back up everything on the drive. You have to go through and tell it what NOT to back up. It feels a little back asswards to me but you only have to do it once.
The real challenge is what to name the target drive.
I confess to not giving it a moment of thought on the old system and left the name that it had when someone else set up the previous system “Back Up Drive.”
That just wasn’t going to do it for me this time. I wanted something more creative and if possible unique.
This is a seriously geeky undertaking. One I’m sure many people of all levels of nerdishness have undertaken. So right away that rules out “Tardis.”no doubt there are hundreds of Mac geeks out there who have named their Time Machine drive after the Doctor’s time machine.
Likewise I’m sure that are a lot of drives named in some variation of “Way Back Machine.” I’m sure not the first nerd to think of Peabody and Sherman.
Which means I am probably not the fist person to think of naming the drive “Delorean.” Just so you could occasionally exclaim, “You built a time machine … Out of a Delorean?”
At which point I started running out of enthusiasm for the whole thing. It had already taken too much mental effort than it was really worth. So I went for a second level name. Probably also well used, but it does provide that split second of amusement at my own cleverness.
I named the drive “Flux Capaciter,” and found an appropriate image for the icon. It doesn’t take 1.21 gigawatts of power to make time travel possible. It gets all of the power it needs via the firewire connection. Which is good because only backing up when the computer gets struck by lightening is not a good plan.
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