SD> You always backup your backups and test them too.  I couldn't tell you
SD> how
SD> many hundreds of man-hours I've lost over the years because of not
SD> backing
SD> up or damaged backups!

Yes, it isn't a question of *if* you will end up with lost data.  It is *when*. 
I learned that fairly early after switching from Apple systems to PC based
in the mid/late 80s.  I kept putting off buying a tape backup drive back
then.  

Spent endless hours modding my WWIV BBS back then and had a failure.  I
ordered the tape backup unit the next day, but that was one day too late.

Ever since, I have been very backup crazy.  I take multiple images of my
main systems and copy the data to multiple places.  I can go back over a
month in time on all restores.

So much so, that I just ordered an external 8 drive array just for backups.
 It will be a huge 10TB JBOD just for backups.

- Mark

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