On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:33 AM, John Hanks <griz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Given the number of floppy disks, Zip disks, Jaz drive cartridges, USB thumb > drives, dead laptops,... I've been handed over the years the one constant > take home lesson is that you can never stop educating people (including > yourself) about the importance of keeping multiple copies of critical data > no matter how stable the storage you use claims to be. It is ALL going to > die eventually.
this point was nailed into me at a young age, when i was working in a computer store (remember those). a local architect used to buy/service computers with us. she came in one day with a broken PC (hard drive failed). she broke down in tears in the middle of the store when i told her the drive failed and the data was gone. she'd been working on a massive autocad project for like 2yrs. old drive went to drivesavers (they did get the data back, horray!), she bought a new hard drive and floppy based tape drive and started backing up her project each night _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
