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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
Which perhaps brings us to the position that we only do backups because we can, in which case they must be redundant.
Before we could do backups hardly anyone kept backup copies of paper books, photographs, mail, business records, etc., etc. off site and we thought nothing of it except just being a little bit careful not to burn the house down or to let burglars in.  |
The fact is that
your hard drive will die, whereas a total-loss house fire is a very rare event for an individual. Your drive might die today, maybe tomorrow, maybe in a couple of years or more, but it will. Unless you have backups, you will lose everything many times in your life.