Subj : Re: ArakNet
To   : Gamgee
From : cr1mson
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 03:53:38

On 10 Nov 2025, Gamgee said the following...
 
 Ga> -=> cr1mson wrote to Nightfox <=-

 Ga>  Ni> You should always make backups of your stuff in case anything like th
 Ga>  Ni> happens.
 Ga> 
 Ga>  cr> As easy as that's said, it's commonly overmissed as time varies for
 Ga>  cr> each backup.
 Ga> 
 Ga> It's "commonly overmissed" (?) by *who*?  Certainly not me.

For people that have slow connections, limited on hard drive space, slower
computers or anything like that.  Everyone is not equal unfortunately.

 Ga>  cr> I'm not aware if he had any current backups of the work
 Ga>  cr> he put in it.  With a hardware failure, he would have had to put it o
 Ga>  cr> another drive or even external drive if that.
 Ga> 
 Ga> Well..... yeah...  putting it on the same drive doesn't even qualify as 
 Ga> a backup.  It MUST be on another drive, preferably in a different 
 Ga> computer, and then again as another copy in a different 
 Ga> building/location.  You didn't know this?

Not everyone has another computer to access, a different building to put it
in or whatever.  Of course I now this, but funding is limited as I've been
moving around a lot and expenses and this is a hobby and provided as a
service for people to enjoy.  Just enjoy it.

-- cr1mson

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