> only make sense when fresh data is significantly more valuable than historical This is the case for basically any transactional/accounting system. If you lo

> only make sense when fresh data is significantly more valuable than historical This is the case for basically any transactional/accounting system. If you lose even one day's data, if often would make more sense to pay the ransom than try to reconstruct the transaction flow for that day (or portion of the day) that was lost.