Re: Encourating Others to Backup!

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Encourating Others to Backup!
Date	2014-06-20 18:35 +1200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<200620141835303762%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	<c0hgjbFmscnU1@mid.individual.net> <mylhsscphb.fsf@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>

Show all headers | View raw

In article <mylhsscphb.fsf@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU>, Martin Frost me at
invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> wrote:
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> writes:
> > 
> > I'm always somewhat boggled by the number of persons I encounter that 
> > do not backup their computers. So far I haven't been very successful at 
> > convincing them to do so. I can remember encountering a man at the 
> > Genius Bar at an Apple Store who had experienced a hard drive failure 
> > and was being told that for a few thousand dollars a recovery 
> > specializing organization might recover some of the data. But it seems 
> > that people don't understand the importance of backing up until a 
> > catastrophe strikes. So what are effective means of convincing someone 
> > of the value of backing up?
> > 
> > I say all of this as I have had no success in convincing my very own 
> > sister in this regard.
> 
> "Would you care if you lost all your files if your disk died tomorrow?
> If so, you must do backups.  Every disk will die eventually -- some
> sooner, some later."
> 
> Then of course there's the other usage of backups to get back a file
> that you delete accidentally.  It's perhaps harder to convince someone
> that they will eventually, by mistake, delete a file they need.

I've never needed a backup - never had a failed hard drive (the
original one that came with this PowerMac and is still going well 16
years later) nor deleted a *needed* file by accident (deleted a few
that weren't that important by accident). I never bothered until fairly
recently and really only do so because it would be a bit of a nuisance
to have to redo some of the work documents, but could be done if I had
to.

The real issue comes with all these people who store things like
personal photos or home video on their computer ... documents can
always be recreated, even if they aren't exactly the same, but once
those photos or movies of baby Goober's first steps are gone, you'll
never get them back.

Thread

Encourating Others to Backup! TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-06-19 20:20 -0500
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-06-19 18:57 -0700
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-20 18:35 +1200
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-20 08:03 -0400
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-20 03:19 +0000
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-06-20 05:23 +0000
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-20 17:47 +1000
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2014-06-20 07:25 -0500
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-06-20 16:11 +0000
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-06-20 15:05 -0400
        Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-21 12:09 +1200
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-21 12:00 +0200
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-20 16:18 +0000
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-20 19:28 +0000
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2014-06-20 19:44 +0000
        Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-06-20 22:16 +0000
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-06-21 01:12 +0000
            Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-21 12:48 +0200
              Re: Encourating Others to Backup! dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-06-22 02:05 +1200
              Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-21 13:20 -0400
                Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-21 18:22 +0100
                Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-21 13:26 -0400
                Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-21 21:53 +0100
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-21 10:06 +0200
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Rick Blaine <boss@cafeamericain.ma> - 2014-06-20 09:39 -0400
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-06-20 18:30 -0700
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-21 02:13 -0700
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-21 12:50 +0200
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! "Mr. Strat" <mrstrat@nospam.gmail.com> - 2014-06-20 07:08 -0700
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-21 12:12 +1200
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-06-21 02:14 -0700
        Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-06-21 09:15 -0400
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-06-21 06:43 -0700
        Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-22 10:36 +1200
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Rick Blaine <boss@cafeamericain.ma> - 2014-06-21 20:05 -0400
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-21 19:18 +0200
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-20 16:17 +0000
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-06-20 16:46 +0000
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-20 17:01 +0000
        Re: Encourating Others to Backup! "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-21 01:40 +0000
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-21 14:07 +1200
            Re: Encourating Others to Backup! "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-21 19:52 +0000
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-06-21 04:39 +0000
            Re: Encourating Others to Backup! "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-06-21 20:06 +0000
          Re: Encourating Others to Backup! "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2014-06-21 12:28 -0400
  Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2014-06-20 12:31 -0400
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-20 16:39 -0500
      Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-06-21 12:14 +1200
    Re: Encourating Others to Backup! Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2014-06-20 18:33 -0700

csiph-web