{"id":1685,"date":"2005-08-22T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1685.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"restoring-from-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/08\/22\/restoring-from-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring from backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that turned out to be easier than expected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Restoring my iTunes music library.  Turns out that this was just a matter of copying back the &#8220;My Documents\/My Music\/iTunes&#8221; directory, which contains the two critical files &#8220;iTunes Library.itl&#8221; and &#8220;iTunes Music Library.xml&#8221;.  Next step was to edit my iTunes preferences to point to my new music directory (I wouldn&#8217;t have had to do this if my drive mappings hadn&#8217;t changed).  Finally, I re-authorized my PC to allow me to play all the music I&#8217;ve bought from the iTunes music store (grr&#8230; must re-rip to remove DRM soon).  Job done.  Plug in iPod, and go.<\/li>\n<li>Restoring my mail in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a>.  Before the crash, I had moved some of my email accounts out of Outlook and into Thunderbird, and I&#8217;ve never really worked with the mbox format before.  Result:  super easy.  Copy the old mail file to the new directory, restart Thunderbird, and boom, there it is.  No sweats.  In fact, I&#8217;ve taken the opportunity to move all of my mail to Thunderbird now, and I&#8217;m liking it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backup4all.com\/\">Backup4All<\/a>, and am using it as a proper daily backup solution.  I never liked the Dantz Retrospect software that came with my big external disk, but Backup4All is excellent.  Defining backup jobs is easy, and running them is smooth.  Definitely a keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that turned out to be easier than expected: Restoring my iTunes music library. Turns out that this was just a matter of copying back the &#8220;My Documents\/My Music\/iTunes&#8221; directory, which contains the two critical files &#8220;iTunes Library.itl&#8221; and &#8220;iTunes Music Library.xml&#8221;. Next step was to edit my iTunes preferences to point to my new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/08\/22\/restoring-from-backup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Restoring from backup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}