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Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the email-and-mp3s-of-the-damned dept.

bettiwettiwoo writes "The BBC has a article on the Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data due to the human factor. According to Kroll Ontrack, a recovery firm, the top ten include: laptop being shot in anger (naturally); laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry (some laptops just weren't meant to live); server rescued after running unchecked 24/7 for years under layers of dust and dirt; and my personal favourite, laptop dropped in bath while doing company accounts. One of my sister-in-laws apparently repeatedly lost data while writing university assignments by kicking the plug to her desktop out of its socket. It was never really clear to me why she didn't avoid (much) of that problem by using frequent automatic backup, but she didn't. Instead she had her mother pop in at regular intervals to remind her to save manually."

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  1. The last time I had a catastrophic loss... by Jerk+City+Troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Beware your RAID-0 arrays. Screwing carelessly with these setups can cause you many problems, data interleaving and all that.

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    1. Re:The last time I had a catastrophic loss... by operagost · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Using RAID-0 for anything but temporary scratch space is already too careless.

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  2. Paranoid about data loss by be-fan · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm quite paranoid about data loss. I have a version-control server running 650 miles from where I go to school, where I backup all my documents and code. This buys me safety from hardware failure, and personal stupidity.

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  3. Re:I once had a really long post to Slashdot by Cloud+K · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Check bugzilla, if the idea doesn't exist - post it.

    An idea that isn't recorded essentially doesn't exist.