Originally Posted by
SoManyMiles-SoLittleTime
Take this as a gentle reminder:
1) Backups
I do.
2) Keep up on specs
I wasn't planning to buy a machine for another year or so.
3) Test your UPS from time to time
I do. BTW, it is an APC, not a Belkin, and it looks like the problem may have been in the computer, not the UPS -- the UPS isn't reporting any failure modes for more than a week. It may have been an internal problem that caused the power drawn by the PC to spike.
4) Learn about cloning old disks to new machines
I know how to do that. If I had to buy a new machine today, I would have wanted to economize as much as possible. There's no reason to buy new drives when the terabyte or so of drives in the current machine work fine.
5) And backups!
All of my data is backed up. Note that, if I had to bring up a new machine, I'd almost certainly have had to re-install all of my software (not a minor project) as XP would have all the wrong drivers for the mother board. There's no way to back up program installations when moving machines.