Subj : Re: ArakNet
To   : cr1mson
From : Gamgee
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 08:06 am

-=> cr1mson wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga>  Ni> You should always make backups of your stuff in case anything like th
 Ga>  Ni> happens.

 Ga>  cr> As easy as that's said, it's commonly overmissed as time varies for
 Ga>  cr> each backup.

 Ga> It's "commonly overmissed" (?) by *who*?  Certainly not me.

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

Well I suppose that is true.

 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> 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?

 cr> Not everyone has another computer to access, a different building to
 cr> put it in or whatever.

Again true, but...  If I was the author of a software project, I would 
*surely* have found the time to at least put the data on a thumbdrive or 
something similar.  I honestly don't see how someone would *not* do 
that.  <SHRUG>




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