What happens when you don't backup your data

“... and make sure if you do backup, that the backup works.

$200,000+ spent re-entering data when an Alaskan state computer tech wipes out a drive, and the backup drive, and then the tape backup was corrupted.

http://robots.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html


Moral of the story, don't keep all your data/photos on your home computer unless you know you have a good backup.”

“oh, Man -- that was painful to read!

Reformat... "Are you Sure? (Y/N)?


online backups... off-site backups... (I purely loathe magnetic tape! LOL)”

“Me too. In a computer class in college 9 years ago we have group projects where we had to design a system for a small business. Some kind of backup medium was required. So we chose a 2nd hard drive, mounted to a removable chassis. Drives were just getting cheap back then, and I had heard too many horror stories about tape. Its the option I used at home since about 1988!

After informally reviewing our proposal, the professor threatened to fail us on the project if we turned it in with that as the backup option.

Amazing that portable USB-based hard drive options are now the home standard...”

“site files, maps and all of my photos are on a 250 gig Iomega plug and play. Just added it about 2 months ago but I'm glad I did.”

“Back in the bad old days, it was Always fun when the tape broke just before the backup completed... This happened so many times you'd start saying little prayers when you got within 5 minutes of completion, VBG”