Restore

The word that you seldom hear, restore. You hear about backups all the time. If you read about how to do backups, you read about how important restores are all well. Let's face it, what good are backups if you can't restore them?

Before I did a clean install of OS X on Kat's G4 Cube, I backed up her documents to my laptop. Don't worrry, there is no disaster story coming. But I did forget to restore her documents back after OS X was installed. She was poking around today looking for her resume and couldn't find it. It instantly dawned on me that I forgot that critical step of restoring her files.

After I dumped them back, she went poking around through her old files. You usually always find something interesting. In this case she found a scan of a postcard that she had sent me a long time ago.