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• 1 - Z.Z.Bachman

  Feb 12, 2005 at 2:52 pm

  No truer words have ever been spoken. Working in the computer service industry with computer controlled instrumentation, our call center engineers tell our customers constantly to back up. Yet it goes in one ear and out the other. Especially the home consumer. Given the technology and low prices for additional mass storage, what's any reader excuse? "I'll do it tommorow" -- Heard that one before ?
  
  

• 2 - Eric Olsen

  Feb 12, 2005 at 2:59 pm

  thanks ZZ, like most anything else it seems to take disaster, or if you're lucky, near-disaster to spur action.

• 3 - DrPat

  Feb 12, 2005 at 3:05 pm

  With the cheap availability of flash memory sticks, there's really no reason not to backup your data, at the very least.
  
  That being said, I know it's been too long since I did mine. See you all later!

• 4 - Eric Olsen

  Feb 12, 2005 at 3:06 pm

  avert those disasters!

• 5 - Phillip Winn

  Feb 12, 2005 at 5:44 pm

  The bummer is when you think about the 400GB of disk you have and wonder how on earth to back it all up. I guess I need another 400GB of disk. :-(

• 6 - Sallie Goetsch

  Feb 12, 2005 at 11:33 pm

  If you're having trouble remembering to make regular backups, sign up for my free weekly backup reminder newsletter, or drop in at the FileSlinger™ Backup Blog.

• 7 - alienboy

  Feb 13, 2005 at 5:44 am

  Obviously, backing up is important given the unreliability of computers but this raises a more interesting point:
  
  When I turn on my TV, DVD or Stereo, they just work straightaway, and seldom go wrong.
  
  When I turn on my computer, I go make a pot of coffee, talk to friends and return just in time to see Windows boot up, if I'm lucky.
  
  I know computers are more complicated and versatile than dedicated hardware, but let's face it, compared to any other consumer tech, 'puters are barely functioning, poorly designed pieces of kit that are built on an ageing architechture that is clearly not really suited to the job.
  
  If computers were cars, they wouldn't be allowed on the road would they?

• 8 - Matt Simpson

  Feb 13, 2005 at 8:15 am

  You wrote - "The odds of these things happening successively are staggeringly high, ..."
  
  However, I think you meant to write - "The odds *AGAINST* these things happening successively are staggeringly high,.."
  
  But that's okay. In this age of information overload, the odds that any of your readers would pick up on that, much less take time to comment on it (see comments above) are incredibly low.

• 9 - Eric Olsen

  Feb 13, 2005 at 12:02 pm

  excellent eye Matt, and you're 100% correct, made the correction

• 10 - George Carastas

  Nov 13, 2006 at 10:38 am

  True words, that's the reason we developed site-vault, to keep our 100+ developed sites safe and up to date. Try it free
  
  thanks,
  George