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It's World Backup Day

Posted by timothy on from the before-things-get-wonky dept.

1sockchuck writes "Today is World Backup Day, an occasion to back up your personal data and financial information and check your restores. For those needing motivation — a group that apparently includes 15 percent of data centers — the Slashdot archives bear witness to date disasters at providers small (Ma.gnolia) and large (Microsoft). The World Backup Day initiative grew out of a thread at Reddit, and invites online backup services to observe the occasion by offering discounts."

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  1. Good for the next disaster. by nitehawk214 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can just restore the world from the backup.

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  2. So we all backup over the people we hit today? by line-bundle · · Score: 3, Funny

    To make sure the tire treads really stick?

  3. Also! by Hatta · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also National Cleavage Day. How are you celebrating?

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  4. Every day should be world backup day by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I constantly get calls from folks I don't know like this:

    Them: "Hi, you don't know me, but I'm a friend of your milkman's, newspaper boy's, dogsitter . . . they all told me that you are, like real smart with computers. Mine won't start . . . it seems to start, but then the disk screams, and nothing happens.

    Me: "Ok, when did you make your last backup?"

    Them: "What's a backup?"

    Me: "Ok, do you know your administrator password?"

    Them: "There is no one here named administrator."

    The sad fact, is that I cave in, and go over to help them out.

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    1. Re:Every day should be world backup day by syousef · · Score: 3, Insightful

      If you don't know them, you should be charging an hourly rate, even if it is a token one. If you don't need/want the work, or responsibility that goes with accepting money, or can't due to other employment arrangements, just plain refuse.

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  5. My company already has a backup day, by TejWC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    its called "Friday".

  6. Date disasters by randizzle3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "the Slashdot archives bear witness to date disasters"
    Of course the they do. This is slashdot.

  7. Leafycaust! by sp1nl0ck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A cautionary tale from Ars Technica. It's a long thread, but the "fun" begins about 2/3 of the way through (page 60-something, IIRC).

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