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Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done

From Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done
Date 2012-04-22 18:58 -0700
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Message-ID <jn2d0c$ibm$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)
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On 2012-04-23 01:47:02 +0000, Helpful Harry said:

> In article <jn23qg$hu2$1@reader1.panix.com>, Bread
> <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> wrote:
>> 
>> I've had catastrophic failures of only three or four drives in over 20
>> years.  But without backups, any one of those would have been pretty
>> horrible disasters for me.
>> 
>> In that same time, I think I've had two mice, one keyboard, and one
>> monitor die.  Hard drive fail.  Period.  Simple as that.  If your mouse
>> or keyboard or monitor die, you do not lose data.  If your hard drive
>> dies - and you don't have a backup - you do lose data.
> 
> And that's your experience ... and yet you (and some others around here)
> seem to think your experience is more valid than mine. Well, gues what,
> it's not.

Because if I (and the others - notice that you're pretty much the only 
one here advocating not backing up?) are wrong, and the hard drives 
never die, the cost of having backups was small.

However, if you are wrong and the hard drives crash, the cost could be 
tremendous.

And you're wrong.  It's not "if" a hard drive crashes on someone.  It's "when".

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Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-21 22:35 -0500
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-04-22 05:27 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2012-04-21 22:58 -0700
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 16:12 -0700
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-22 17:57 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@me.com> - 2012-04-22 07:51 -0500
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:42 +1200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:47 +1000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:32 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 13:30 +1000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-22 12:19 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:50 +1000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:39 +1200
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 16:21 -0700
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 13:47 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 18:58 -0700
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-23 18:48 +1200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 18:38 +1200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Michelle <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-04-22 18:21 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:24 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-23 16:26 +0200
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Sara <saramerriman@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-04-23 15:52 +0100
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-24 07:32 +1200
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-24 11:18 +0200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 00:47 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-26 18:59 +1200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:14 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:20 +0200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-26 20:24 +1000
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2012-04-22 14:44 -0400
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-22 13:17 -0700
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-23 06:55 +1000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-22 17:42 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2012-04-22 20:26 -0400
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Ed Anson <EdAnson@comcast.net> - 2012-04-22 21:48 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-22 18:59 -0700
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-04-22 18:23 -0400
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:22 +0000
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-23 16:43 -0600
    Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 00:54 -0400
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-26 18:51 +1200
        Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-26 06:59 -0400
          Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com (Helpful Harry) - 2012-04-27 09:31 +1200
            Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-26 21:37 -0400
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-26 18:47 -0700
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-04-27 21:26 +1000
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done David Spencer <spencer@panix.com> - 2012-04-27 14:08 +0000
                Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-04-27 15:26 +0100
                Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-27 16:12 -0400
              Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) - 2012-05-08 03:25 +0000
      Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:24 +0200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2012-04-23 08:31 +1200
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done Koralatov <usenet@koralatov.com> - 2012-04-22 23:28 +0000
  Re: Backing Up - Why So Often Not Done jdear64 <jdear64@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-23 10:56 -0700

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