On 03/02/2021 11:44, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher  writes:
>> On 02/02/2021 15:01, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>>> alister  writes:
>>>> Glad to see in the thread that you have located & recovered your files
>>>>
>>>> as a side topic another good recovery tool is photorec
>>>
>>> Better still, keep backups.
>>>
>>> (The thread is puzzlingly titled. If they are backup files then instead
>>> of trying to recover them, why not just make a new backup?)
>>
>> Pedant.
>
> Specifically, a pedant who didn’t lose anything when his Pi’s SD card
> failed without warning the other day.
>
I should hope not.

But the pedantry was the strict 'one true stick' interpretation of what
is meant by 'backup'.



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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over
the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that
authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

  Frédéric Bastiat

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