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That we have people who should know better not have regular backups let alone off-site ones. I mean, come on Shawn, the only copies of your pictures and home movies is on that drive? You don't backup at least weekly to some sort of removable media? And you didn't specifically back up the drive knowing you were going to work on or around them-doing destructive partition operations? Really? Wow, I hope you are not in IT, if you are, you should be very embarrassed. Since so many now have some sort of broadband, free off-site backups are a very simple deal. If you don't have anyone willing to trade off-sites then pay for one of the many off-site services. Having a hard drive fail or a big mistake like this article dealt with should be only a minor inconvenience not a data losing event. At least take a tape or external drive backup what is important and throw in your trunk of your car or store at work or even get a safe deposit box-anything but don't keep it local! I've seen several interviews of people lamenting losing all their family pictures and videos in the California fires, it's a shame but 100% preventable. This is a recurring theme I see over and over and I'm not sure what the answer is. Those of us in IT must do a better job of telling our friends and family-even implementing it for them. I think OS setups should be changed to include a backup option-reminding the user to death if they skip-just like we now try to force a firewall and non-root/administrator access for day-to-day usage.

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