I Fought Murphy's Law, And The Law Won

by glyph

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last posted Jan. 15, 2017, 9:15 p.m.
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Yesterday I lost several terabytes of personal data, some small portion of it irreplaceable, because I failed to observe the most basic rule of data on computers:

No matter how fancy your storage system is, always keep a wholly independent backup.

created June 28, 2014, 11:53 p.m.

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