But consider my recent situation: My mother entrusted her will and other important papers to her lawyer. After her death, I discovered the lawyer had died several years previously, and his widow sold the business, including my mother's documents, to another lawyer. After much investigation, I discovered the name of the second lawyer and managed to contact her. Once. For several months, I heard nothing and my calls were unanswered. Just as my own lawyer was about to begin a long and expensive process for settling the estate with a will gone missing (much harder than if there is no will at all!), I got a call out of the blue from the missing the second lawyer. She had taken sick and had been hospitalized in serious conditions for months. Within a few days she had located the documents and shipped them to me.
I also have an "attic" directory and I use it for files that don't need to be backed up in my regular backup schedule. It contains stuff that I've already archived or that wouldn't be badly missed if I lost it.
I'm also considering a adding a place for stuff I know won't be of any use or interest after a few years. I do this already with my dead tree files of receipts and such. I keep things in the order filed and throw out some of the oldest when the file drawer gets full. I should be able to do this for similar computer based data by occasionally purging files with old dates.
You don't need a GPS to end up on the road to Crackpot. My wife and I were once led to that road by a low-tech AA atlas. Of course, we really went that way because we couldn't resist seeing a place called "Crackpot", but the map's rendering of that nasty road didn't make it appear any worse than others we'd happily navigated while exploring other Yorkshire backcountry. By the way, once you start down that road, turning around is not an option.
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But consider my recent situation: My mother entrusted her will and other important papers to her lawyer. After her death, I discovered the lawyer had died several years previously, and his widow sold the business, including my mother's documents, to another lawyer. After much investigation, I discovered the name of the second lawyer and managed to contact her. Once. For several months, I heard nothing and my calls were unanswered. Just as my own lawyer was about to begin a long and expensive process for settling the estate with a will gone missing (much harder than if there is no will at all!), I got a call out of the blue from the missing the second lawyer. She had taken sick and had been hospitalized in serious conditions for months. Within a few days she had located the documents and shipped them to me.
I also have an "attic" directory and I use it for files that don't need to be backed up in my regular backup schedule. It contains stuff that I've already archived or that wouldn't be badly missed if I lost it. I'm also considering a adding a place for stuff I know won't be of any use or interest after a few years. I do this already with my dead tree files of receipts and such. I keep things in the order filed and throw out some of the oldest when the file drawer gets full. I should be able to do this for similar computer based data by occasionally purging files with old dates.
The attack on VoIP systems started last week -- in the U.S. House of Representatives.
You don't need a GPS to end up on the road to Crackpot. My wife and I were once led to that road by a low-tech AA atlas. Of course, we really went that way because we couldn't resist seeing a place called "Crackpot", but the map's rendering of that nasty road didn't make it appear any worse than others we'd happily navigated while exploring other Yorkshire backcountry. By the way, once you start down that road, turning around is not an option.
As the article quotes Murphy's Law: "Every component than can be installed backward, eventually will be."