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Happy World Backup Day

Posted by samzenpus on from the celebrate-often dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Easter isn't the only thing some people are celebrating today. Today is also World Backup Day. What steps have you taken to be able to resurrect your data, instead of having it go to eternal oblivion?"

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  1. Re:Easter is Backup Day? by fustakrakich · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, really. Backup Day should be on the Thursday preceding Good Friday.

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  2. Re:Two for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I have a RAID array of Dropbox and Amazon S3 drives... I don't give a shit about anything.

  3. Failed method by sootman · · Score: 3, Funny

    I put all my data in a cave and sealed the entrance with a big rock -- but three days later it was all gone.

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    1. Re:Failed method by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's okay, your data just went to the cloud.

  4. The First Three by meerling · · Score: 3, Funny

    The First Three Rules of Computing

    1 - Backup
    2 - Backup
    3 - See Rules 1 & 2

    Of course, I have no idea how to backup a world. What kind of media would you use, cosmic string recorders?

  5. Done it the easy way by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've committed one and zero to memory.

    I'll be able to regenerate all the data using just those two numbers.

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  6. Re:Done it the hard way by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've committed every one and zero to memory.

    Me too, however, recalling the order of them is something I'm still working on.

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  7. Relaaaaax by Tablizer · · Score: 1, Funny

    You guys are just a bunch of paranoid sons of b ~ '[ &z ( j ` NO CARRIER

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  8. Re:Easter is Backup Day? by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't be restored if you haven't been saved.

  9. Just wait three days. by julian67 · · Score: 3, Funny

    No need to do anything. When disaster strikes just wait three days and it simply restores itself. Shortly afterwards the data ascends into The Cloud and becomes available forever and ever. Halleluiah!

  10. Obligatory Bitcoin by TeknoHog · · Score: 3, Funny

    I embed the most important data in Bitcoin transactions, and let the geek world mirror the blockchain.

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