From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >Well, there's data, and then there's data. Some is vital, Some is   
   >merely important, much is neither. Putting vital data on a flash   
   >drive that could be lost, stolen, or damaged by "carrying it around"   
   >isn't a particularly good idea,   
      
   Lost, damaged I can agree with to a point (there is ALWAYS some risk   
   of things getting lost - especially when they're small. shiny  and   
   attractive to the dust-bunnys, and as for damage, "sh** happens"), but   
   if they are separated from the laptop, the risk of theft is "less".   
      
   >but if you must you should of course create multiple backups, no   
   >matter how reliable you believe the flash drive to be. Important data   
   >should be backed up more than once, too.   
      
   How's this different from any computer data?   From my files:   
      
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   I am root. If you see me laughing, you better have a backup.   
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   If the systems weren't backed up they weren't important.   
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   Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say:   
   45. Was that YOUR directory?   
   ----   
   "The Write Many, Read Never drive.  For those people that don't know   
   their system has a /dev/null already."      -- a friend singing the   
   praises of 8mm Exabytes   
   ----   
   A backup system is _easy_. A pretty graphical shell around   
   "cp -r / /dev/null" will satisfy most customers. A backup system that   
   you can actually restore from is a lot harder, and a lot rarer.   
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   >>>>> I have backups. They're made on a single tapedrive and the tapes   
   >>>>> are stacked against the wall about four feet from the disc they   
   >>>>> most need to protect.   
      
   >>>> And here I was once unhappy because the off-site backups for a   
   >>>> site in Arlington were kept in Baltimore instead of somewhere   
   >>>> farther off.   
      
   >>> I'm doing some work for a client at the moment who is in the US,   
   >>> and is considering backing up their data to our DataCenter in   
   >>> Australia.  Now *that's* geographic redundancy...   
      
   >> You really think so?  Just one big asteroid, and your backups are   
   >> vapor.   
      
   > Not a problem.  Asteroids, like alien invasions, only ever hit the   
   > Northern Hemisphere.  Usually New York although aliens do tend to   
   > prefer British quarries.   
      
   Giant monsters, on the other hand, seem to prefer Tokyo.   
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   >>>> *Please* don't destroy the Earth - it's where I keep all my stuff.   
      
   >>> Don't you have backups?   
      
   >> The problem is finding a scratch planet to test the restore with.   
      
   >Oh, well, nobody's using the moon, so grab that. Yeah, I know, it's a   
   >bit on the small side, but it'll let you verify that the important   
   >stuff gets restored properly, right?   
      
   /root, in other words?   
      
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