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I've had plenty of people lose vital files on borked hard disks and pay thousands to get those files back via drive recovery firms. I've only had one person ask
by noonespecial 10y ago
I've had plenty of people lose vital files on borked hard disks and pay thousands to get those files back via drive recovery firms. I've only had one person ask me about ransomed files whom I advised to pay the $400-ish demanded.
I told him that most of my clients pay 10x as much to learn how important backups are.
All data storage devices will fail. What will you do when yours does?
- IndianAstronaut 10y agoThe worst place I have seen this is in scientific labs. Professors and graduate students are terrible about keeping backups, making data easy to understand to others, and maintaining data. My old professor lost more than 2 years of work when one grad student in our had a car crash and his laptop was destroyed in the crash.
- sliverstorm 10y agoI've observed the same. It's baffling, and I don't understand why. Maybe they are in a nasty spot of workers who are non-techie but 100% reliant on tech?