When did you first "get" backup?

It was a dark and stormy night...

Actually it was a sunny day in Virginia. I was twelve years old and committed to writing a novel using Paperback Writer on a Commodore 64:



There was no auto-save, no quick Ctrl-S, just waiting to write the file to the lumbering 5¼ inch floppy drive. Inevitably five hours after the last save the computer crashed and everything was lost.

Tears before bedtime, lesson learned about backup and I don't think I ever ran Paperback Writer again.

I think everyone who really "gets" backup has a similar tale. Let me know your story - what was your first or worst case of data loss?

posted by Rob on Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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3am (after 22 hours trying to find/restore recent backup tape)

1/2 of a RAID mirror in my hand - last surviving copy of files. 150 people arrive at 09:00 to meet 5pm £40000 shipment & serious embarassment (next shipment at 8pm).

Attach disk to RAID controller.
"Unable to read. Disk uninitialized. Do you wish to initialize disk (Y/N)."

Flip coin....Heads for Y, Tails for N

By  Anonymous, at July 1, 2009 1:00 AM  

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