Gratuitous advice from a hurting user:

Hi all -- if you're here, you've likely been poking around through various pieces of advice and tips. I want to add, explicitly, the following:
***NEVER, EVER format a hard drive without FIRST UNPLUGGING EVERY SINGLE OTHER DEVICE you are not using at the time.****
This should be a hard-fast rule like 'never cut fabric at night', and 'measure twice so as to cut once', etc....
I read comments to this effect about 'being sure to format the right disk', before doing so and I sniggered inwardly about how 'duh: I would never make such a stupid mistake'... But I now have. In the interests of squeezing a teensy bit of OJ from the mess, I would like to share here the fruits of my sadly-learned hard knocks. It hadn't really occurred to me to take that extra precaution before formatting a disk -- to unplug *everything else* -- but I sure will now and forever more. It is so easy, with one little click, to destroy years and years worth of data ... it's worth the extra precaution and the little extra time it takes to organize and unmount, in deference to it. I have spent well over 1,000 hours by now trying to recover jpgs from a huge disk I accidentally reformatted. {Let me send a HUGE shout of appreciation to and high recommendation for Cristophe Grenier and his PhotoRec freeware: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec . Wow is that good stuff}.
So anyway, please everyone, take this rule to heart: unplug *every single other disk* from your computer before formatting another, just to be positive you won't accidentally overwrite your heart's work.
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A thought on backups - I do several
I run Time Machine which protects me from software and human failures by letting me simply go back to a good time.
I also have an off site TM backup that I update occasionally in case of a real disaster
I do a daily clone which protects me from hardware failure and lets me simply boot to a different drive if my primary drive is messed up or dead - instant recovery for that -- but this does not do well for software problems that occur over time or may not be seen for a while - TM is for that
And before major upgrades (like iPhoto '11 for example) I make another copy of the data for that application just before upgrading
LN
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