Help, my disk array has one dead member

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2017-03-22 at 22:14 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> And background: I've lost data before, like my PhD research back
> around 1999.  Eeek!

In 1993 (?) I was doing PC support at the the Australian National
University. Saw three or four lost souls traipse in with a few floppies
or a hard disk containing the only copy of their thesis or their PhD
data, asking plaintively if we could help. We rarely could, and there
was no way they could pay the big bucks that were needed for
professional data recovery. Sometimes that had printouts that were only
a few weeks or months old...

Easy to laugh, but for those people the loss was a palpable tragedy,
and one of the main reasons I am completely anal about backups - mine
and my customers'.

And I am still angry when I think that their supervisors, or their
Faculties, didn't tell them how to back up, and just let them lose
literally years of work.

It is *amazing* how many people have literally never considered the
idea that they might one day just lose all their data. How can anyone
in this day and age not have thought about their laptop, tablet, phone 
or desktop being lost or stolen, or just failing one day?

Regards, K.

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