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2009年05月02日

MacBook HDD crash

Last weekend my MacBook's hard disk drive crashed to the point where the MacBook didn't recognize it on startup. Thankfully I had backups, although they were based on rsync of most of my home directory, not on Mac OS X's own Time Machine. So after buying a new and bigger (320 GB) HDD, I had to reinstall all applications. The whole process of getting everything back as it was only took half a day, so it wasn't too bad. It was also good to start from a clean system, since a lot of unnecessary things had accumulated over the years.

For example, I don't use a package manager such as Fink or MacPorts anymore; so far I was able to either compile everything myself or use installers. I also took the opportunity to finally switch to perl 5.10 as my main perl. Now I'm also using Time Machine, as several people have recommended it because of its painless backup and restore process. I backup to a 2.5" 500 GB USB HDD, but I also still use rsync to back up parts of my home directory to two other Macs that are in two different locations.

The MacBook seems more quiet now and feels faster, and it's certainly nice to have the extra space. And it's good to know that dealing with a HDD crash isn't as traumatic as I had thought it would be.

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