Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data

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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I once had a really long post to Slashdot

[Dancin_Santa]

And then there was this 500 Internal Server Error and my wit and wisdom were lost forever to the bit bucket in the sky.

Re:The last time I had a catastrophic loss...

[operagost]

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

Another stupid way to loose data

[MrDelSarto]

When showing some people around your very impressive computer room say: see this! It's a hot plug RAID array for one of our production file servers with a couple of hundred gigabytes of storage. I could just pull any one of these drives out right now and no one would even notice. In fact, let me demonstrate ...

Unfortunatley it wasn't as redundant as he expected :(