The title is a play on words, but this metaphorically, did happen to my social media person. This comes from the case files of Arnold Consulting.
From the Case Files of Arnold Consulting:
I was having a conference call with my social media company, TriEnna Marketing. TriEnna helps Arnold Consulting with content and social media postings.
While the owner, Alexis Bach, and I were talking, she was telling me she was most likely going to have to replace her Mac because it was faulting and crashing while she was working. The Mac was in that 5 to 6 year time frame when you should be thinking about hardware refresh. Alexis had Apple tech support look at it earlier in the week and they found nothing wrong.
Well over that weekend she did replace the entire computer. Alexis had deadlines coming up, and just could not risk having the Mac down and missing production.
Apple makes it very easy to move into a new computer. Essentially, buy the computer and reload your backup from your old computer. It is really that simple.
Time machine is a good backup program locally on the network, but it does not do a remote disaster recovery copy to have somewhere else just in case something bad happens.
However, you can send it to iCloud backup, and that will cover you, unless the cloud itself fails. But how long will it take to get your stuff back, if you have a disaster?
The Fat Finger:
Alexis got her new Apple and started the reload process, but she forgot her encrypted password she put on the backup, well—kind of. She had it wrote down, and she was running into the problem
of….was it an I, L, or a 1 on her password? After a while she figured it out, but it was a very nerve racking incident for a business owner. She did get the backup recovered, and the computer loaded.
Let’s not let that happen again:
After TriEnna marketing got the system backup and running, Alexis asked if Arnold Consulting could help back up her Mac. Currently, the backup software we have can not directly backup a Mac.
However, what we can do is install a Windows10 Computer on site, and the company can save files on the Windows computer from the Mac.
We can then backup the Windows 10 Computer. So, TriEnna would have a copy of the files on Mac, on the Windows10, and a disaster copy at Arnold Consulting.
The files transferred to Arnold Consulting are encrypted in flight and at rest, and for right now that is our solution to Mac backup!
Arnold Consulting saves the day, as Alexis would say! TriEnna Marketing won’t have to worry about losing data or forgotten passwords again!
