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Old 06-28-2013, 10:44 AM   #483
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She had it backed up to a USB stick (or thought she did). Unfortunately, something went badly wrong and it was not recoverable. She's not very computer savvy so she took it to someone to try and get files off, but they were unable to get anything from the hard drive. I was never clear if the backups she thought she was doing never happened or if the USB stick was also corrupted (I am not sure if she understood it.)

She thought she was backing things up, but apparently it didn't work out. Reading those blog entries for the three weeks while she was trying to get the stuff recovered (and it's expensive to even have someone look) was...awful.
That's a very scary story, and a lesson to be learned: a backup is only a backup if you can restore stuff from it (try it to be sure).
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