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by hga 4615 days ago
Do you know of anyone who didn't get deadly serious about backups before they had a sour taste of data loss?

Me, I was just lucky my first really interesting experience was on a big UNIX(TM) Version 6 system, with a couple of user accessible DECTapes. Buying a tape was cheap enough, and the whole thing was neat ... and then I learned the -rf flags to rm. And had any critical data I lost on that DECTape.

Today I do nightly backups of my home systems to LTO-4 tapes (as well as offsite of the most critical to rsync.net a time zone away).