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Coppola Loses All His Data
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."
Don't worry, mate, It will be backed up very solid quite soon :)
You will never lose it again. It will be as safe as it could be.
(Unless you'll decide to purchase it and keep it private, of course)
Why is this news? Someone somewhere didn't back up their data and the hdd was stolen. Happens a lot people, next thing you know we're going to be hearing about how Paris Hilton bought an iPhone and an iGasm.
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The backup device was taken and in its place was a severed horse's head....
Put a Vista sticker on it.
Not very professional.
...which was a transistor wrapped up in a newspaper, along with a note that said, "Maxtor sleeps with the fishes".
in a drawer at my parents'
Upstairs isn't usually considered an "offsite" backup.
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Oh man, that brings back a funny memory. I was working a customer where there were many consultants parked in a cube farm. An evening came, and most everyone left the laptops chained via a kensington lock rather than un-network and take them home. They came back to find all of the laptops still there - minus the battery, hdd, memory, dvd, and any other removable part - without being overly gentle on the deconstruction.
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Didn't you watch that episode of MythBusters?
Sure you can get it open, but you'll most likely toast the contents.