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Comment by tomsmeding

7 years ago

> when both hard drive and backup drive failed within the same hour

That is basically the horror scenario of backup'ing, since you don't usually protect against that kind of failure: the probability of it happening just seems too low. It's similar to having a limit to your attack model when securing your data/accounts/... against attacks: you can try to protect against a governmentally funded cyber attack on you personally, but you probably won't succeed and it's very surely not worth the trouble if you're not a very influential or otherwise important person.

In this case, the usual retort would of course be "why didn't you have a backup in 'the cloud'?" I have for part of my stuff, but not for all. I feel you.

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lloeki  7 years ago

Turns out this guys was right:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html

  • serf  7 years ago

    NSFW:

    FYI if you click that link and the referrer is hacker news it redirects you to a nice picture of a testicle in a cup, first thing in the morning.

    (it redirects to : https://imgur.com/32R3qLv )

    The link is fine, just don't click it from here -- well, unless cup-testicles are your bag. Pun intended.

    • lloeki  7 years ago

      I knew about that and tried beforehand to see if I needed to put a warning, but it doesn't trigger anymore for me so I thought this article was exempt, or he removed it. Maybe it's Safari that properly strips the referer.

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