I was planning to write yesterday about a new Kosmos version, but my home computer had other ideas. Basically, the system hard disk (IBM Hitachi 250 GB SATA, bought less than a year ago) started failing and Vista didn’t want to boot any more (or was booting veeery slowly). I tested the drive using the Drive Fitness Test and it reported "defective device" errors after running tests, so I guess the disk is going to the dogs.

Luckily I have my source code repositories backed up regularly to an external hard drive and I also started playing with Amazon S3 storage which I plan to use as a remote backup destination for SVN repositories. But what I didn’t do is to backup my system partition using an image backup software.

So before continuing my work on Kosmos, I have to reinstall the system, which will probably take a day or to of my spare time. But I hope this is my last OS reinstall for the foreseeable future, since I plan to use Acronis True Image to regularly backup the system drive. I read some good reviews of this software and hopefully it will satisfy my needs. Anyway, hard disk failures aren’t that rare, so I want to make my life a little bit easier when they do occur.