From: b_duibhirz@yahooz.comz.auz   
      
   Netrunner wrote:   
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   > And for GOD's sake, PLEASE back up your data.   
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   > Netrunner.   
      
   Amen brother - got a customer whose data I had to recover from a crashed   
   HDD - got back all but about 100 of *thousands* of photographs. Advised   
   her to get a new computer because I couldn't guarantee the   
   mobo/processor/memory/video/whatever wouldn't die next week, and then   
   she's thowing good money after bad. So, she buys a new machine, I   
   transfer all files from the old machine, she's even bought blank DVDs to   
   do the backups.   
      
   Twelve months down the track, the HDD in the new machine fails (bad MBR)   
   - it's still under warranty, so I tell her to contact the retailer for a   
   replacement/repair.   
      
   "And you've got your backups, right?"   
      
   Sheepish look from customer.   
      
   "well, I bought the discs, but I never got around to it."   
      
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