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Coppola Loses All His Data

Posted by kdawson on from the no-questions-asked dept.

Colin Smith writes in with an object lesson in backup methodology — once you have backed everything up, take it somewhere else. "Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday. He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years' worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family."

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  1. 15 YEARS of data - gone?!!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Let me get this straight. He's got FIFTEEN YEAR's worth of data, likely some expert who has transferred his files around for him for each 2 or 3 years that he's been able to find a new computer, and it's only been in these past few year's worth of data emphasized backing-up that he's actually decided to delete all else permanently off of his old media? How fucking stupid is he again?!?!

  2. Too bad, douche bag! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The producer of The Virgin Suicides, directed by his no-talent daughter, finally got a little grief in his self-absorbed life. Tough shit, asshole.

  3. Well... by vegiVamp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    probably wouldn't have happened if he was running Linux.

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    What a depressingly stupid machine.